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RESTORATION OF THE PERSON, PRESENCE AND POWER OF THE

HOLY SPIRIT

In the life of the 21st Century Believer

RESTORATION SERIES NO: 3

By

DR MARIANNE UITZINGER

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Preface

YHWH “God” has called us to do two things. Firstly, we are never to give up

studying and seeking the correct interpretation of any given Bible passage.

Secondly, such opportunities are golden moments for us to learn to show grace

and love to others whose understanding of a given passage may differ from ours.

Throughout the HRTI’s teachings, we use a slightly different vocabulary to that

which some might be accustomed. We have chosen to use what many refer to as

a Messianic vocabulary. The reasons being: Firstly, using Hebraic-sounding words

is another way to help you associate with the Hebraic Roots of your faith.

Secondly, these words are not merely an outward show for us; they are truly an

expression of who we are as Messianic Jews and Gentiles, who have "taken hold"

of our inheritance with Israel.

Instead of saying "Jesus," we call our Saviour "Y’shua," the way His parents would

have addressed Him in Hebrew. In addition, rather than referring to Y’shua as

"Christ," we use the word "Messiah," which is an Anglicized version of the Hebrew

word, Moshiach.

"YaHoVaH" is the name of God in Hebrew, where it is written as four consonants

(YHWH or YHVH, as the W and V is derived from the same Hebrew letter ‘Vaw’).

These four letters are called the Tetragrammaton (Greek for "[a word] having four

letters). Jews ceased to use the name in the Greco-Roman period, replacing it

with the common noun Elohim, “God,” to demonstrate the universal sovereignty

of Israel’s God over all others; at the same time, the divine name was increasingly

regarded as too sacred to be uttered, and was replaced in spoken ritual by the

word Adonai (“My Lord”). From about the 6th

to the 10th

century the Masoretes,

Jewish scholars who were the first to add vowels to the text of the Hebrew Bible,

used the vowel signs of the Hebrew words Adonai or Elohim as the vowels for

YHWH, and later the artificial name Jehovah was produced. Christian scholars and

translators after the Renaissance and Reformation periods replaced the sacred

name YHWH with GOD and LORD (all in capital letters in the Bible); which was a

strategic move of Satan as to not using the Name. The Sacred Name occurs 6,828

times in the Hebrew text of the Bible, proving YHWH wants us to use it.

In the 19th

and 20th

centuries, biblical scholars again began to use the form

Yahweh; and it is now the conventional usage in biblical scholarship, but leading

Hebrew Scholars suggest YHWH should be pronounced as Yah-oo-VaH (Y’shua is

derived from YaH-shuvah which means YaH saves. Yah (is an abbreviation of

God’s name YHWH, as seen in Psalm 68:4. The Name is also found in the word

hallellu-YaH, which means “you praise the LORD”).

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OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS

DEDICATION vi

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1 – WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM? 3

Where Did It All Come From? 3

Contrasting the Modern (21st

)Century Church with the Early Church 9

Apparent lack of Knowledge in the Western World Church 10

Significance of this Research for the Body Corporate 13

Apostasy and Apathy in the Body Corporate 16

Counterfeit Christianity leading to Apostasy and Apathy 19

What fuels the Apostasy? 20

There are more to the Apostasy 22

Explaining the Concept of Hebraic Roots 24

The Hebrew mind versus the Western and Hellenistic Mindset 26

CHAPTER 2 – BACKGROUND TO THE CAUSES FOR THE APOSTASY 34

The Spirit-filled Church versus the weak, powerless Modern Day

Church: What went wrong? 34

Introduction to the Roots of the Christian Faith 34

Background to Temple Sacrifices: Judaic Concept 36

Sacrificial System 36

The Priest or Cohen 38

Introducing the Presence of the Holy Spirit in the Tanach 39

Thou shall make Holy Garments – for Glory and Worship 42

The Divine Stone and the Manifest Presence: Urim and Thummim 45

A Priest can be disqualified from consulting YHWH 49

The Role of the Holy Spirit during the Theocratic rule in the Desert 50

The Holy Spirit reveals the indwelling Presence of YHWH 54

Beginning in the Desert, inquiring of YHWH 57

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The Deception of Replacement Theology 63

Consequences for Gentile Believers Striving to Replace Israel 85

The lost Legacy of the Hebraic Church 92

The Eternal Priesthood of Melchizedek 102

YHWH’s Feasts neglected by the Westernised church 106

Not yet done on Hebraic Roots - The Name above ALL Names 115

Back to Reality – The Drama of the End-Times 120

CHAPTER 3 – THE HOLY SPIRIT RESUMES RESTORATION OF

APOSTOLIC LEADERSHIP IN THE 21ST

CENTURY HEBRAIC CHURCH 123

Analysis of Yahshua, The Human Being 124

Analysing the man Yahshua, Who received the ALL encompassing

Five-fold Ministry 129

Analysing the Demonstration of Ruach HaKodesh Gifts 133

Analysing Yahshua in the Office of Evangelist 135

Analysing Yahshua in the Office of Teacher 137

Analysing Yahshua in the Office of Prophet 139

Analysing Yahshua in the Office of Pastor or Shepherd 144

Analysing and Defining Yahshua as an Apostle 146

Conversion to Judaism 153

Obstacles Preventing the Restoration of the Holy Spirit 153

CHAPTER 4 – RESTORATION HEBRAIC ROOT LEGACY 156

Results: the Person of the Ruach HaKodesh 159

Results: the Deception of Replacement Theology 159

Results: Every Bishop is now an Apostle 160

Results: Lost Legacy of Hebraic Church through Betrayal 161

Results: Converting to Judaism 163

Restoration: Yahshua the Apostle as Reformer 164

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Restoration: Hebraic Community according to the Book of Acts 169

Restoration: the Urim and Thummim – Back to Jerusalem 175

Restoration: Hebraic Messianic Priesthood 176

Restoration of His Name 180

CHAPTER 5 – RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BODY CORPORATE 183

Divine Mandate for the Household of Judah 183

Introducing the Ministry of Reconciliation 186

The Gentile Church Grafted into Her Hebraic Root

through Repentance 188

What is the Role of the Church in the Restoration Process? 188

Yahshua Resumes His Apostolic Office 189

BIBLIOGRAPHY 191

Glossary: Special Terminology and Definitions

Bibles

Books

Journal Articles

Internet Websites

Research Is the Process Elimination,

Whatever Remains Is the Truth

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DEDICATIONDEDICATIONDEDICATIONDEDICATION

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO

The living ELOHIM of Yisrael, YHWH

Yahshua, His Son

And ever faithful Ruach HaKodesh, my Teacher

My loving husband Hans

Calvary University for utmost support and outstanding Academic Leadership

Johann and Rina Joubert for faithful prayer and computer support

Johann and Adri Swanepoel for Yisrael and unending prayer support

Nico and Zelda Oosthuizen, Technochem, who sent me

My children: Louis, Joey and Cobus, Amanda and John

My Beloved grandchildren: Claudia, Ulrich and Arista

The love of my life: Oumie’s Dayne and Chenay

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INTRODUCTION

This book is part of a larger body of educational work called “The Restoration

series”. This book and the entire series were written as a consequence of my

search for the truth. Having joined a mainstream protestant denomination, since

I became born-again as a young woman, I was exposed to man-made church

doctrines which often times seemed to contradict the very words contained

within the Scriptures.

Ever since my born-again experience, I have considered myself to be an active

Believer, although I never seriously researched the origins of Christianity or to

understand exactly what the term Christian meant. I was simply led to believe

that Christianity was right and every other religion was wrong or deficient.

When one endeavoured to do research into the origins of the Christian faith,

people were quick to point out that you are now going to lose your sanity when

you study the Word too deeply! In Afrikaans it meant “jy gaan nou Bybelstryd

kry”. I was too ignorant to realise that I was being programmed to “stay with the

program” and not to make waves! The problem within the church system is that

our Church Fathers have permitted paganised, Romanised and Gentilised

Christianity in order to define our doctrines; which come from their translations

of the Scriptures. They have placed on them Greek platonic meanings of which

have been stripped the Hebrewness of the Scriptures, and therefore have

interpreted, not always translated, it through the eyes of the Greek philosophers,

such as Plato. The church has accepted a Roman belief system as inherited from

the Greeks. To avoid being labelled as a rebel, I began to compromise – not

knowing that my spiritual identity was systematically being destroyed by the

church. In those days being a rebel in the church was tantamount to being a

heretic.

Be as it may, there was always this hunger in my spirit. I saw YHWH

demonstrating His wonderful power by healing the sick. I saw Him fill people with

His Holy Spirit deep in the heart of Africa, yet, nothing, but nothing could fill this

hunger in my spirit. I went into a performance mode, thinking I am not doing

enough for God, only to discover that I am damaging my relationship with Him.

My beliefs were founded on more than simply blind faith. I am grounded in the

Word, yet there is something lacking – a barrenness in my life.

Being in the healing ministry for many years, I discovered that people, when

prayed for, are not being healed. At least not at the Biblical rate! I had faith and

taught the Scriptures; the sick exercised their faith to attend the healing services;

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many were healed; many not. It was difficult to understand this phenomenon,

and I began to research the root causes for diseases and sickness. Furthermore, I

wanted the reasons why people are not healed. The Word says that YHWH is not

a man that He should lie, Num 23:19. Even so, something was seriously wrong,

people received a touch from God, only to lose their healing, others that were

seemingly so full of faith, were not healed. I wanted to examine the root cause

to this problem in order to minister healing to a very sick Body. As the Spirit of

God, led me deeper and more intense into the Word, He opened a field of study

to me that was mind boggling. He introduced me to the Restoration of His

Healing Covenant, as well as to the Restoration of His Blessings in the life of a

Believer. The above mentioned research eventually led to the research and

creation of this book: The Restoration of the Person, Presence and Power of the

Holy Spirit.

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WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?

Dear reader, I am going to treat you really differently from other authors. I am

intentionally giving you an in-depth introduction to the blueprint of this book in

this Chapter. The plan is to formulate in you a desire for more knowledge and

to create a clear or profound perception of the dangerous situation existing

within the Body Corporate! Throughout this book I have adopted the

Comparative contextual analysis methodology for comparative research

approach. Hence, I divided the different research topics into easier to read

chapters. It is the only way to enhance your understanding of a complex

situation, by making you aware of what is to come in the following chapters. This

book will challenge you right out of your comfort zone – into a very exciting

future with the Holy Spirit.

The reader needs to know that we are not Westerners. We are Africans living on

the Continent of Africa. However, the Westernised (Greek/Hellenistic) version

and traditions of our faith was inherited from our forefathers, who, over the

centuries, totally negated the Jewish Roots of the Christian faith.

WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?

Prior to the creation of the world, there was only one spiritual system functioning

in heaven by which the angelic host worshipped the Eternal Elohim, the Creator

of the Heavens and the earth; YHWH. YHWH desired that an exact replica of this

worship system be reproduced on the earth. He created man to worship Him

voluntarily and therefore, his primary function was to bring praise and honour to

His Creator, in accordance with the Heavenly pattern. YHWH then revealed to

His creation the order of worship pleasing unto Him. Man, Adam, being a legal

entity and spirit being, through rebellion, chose to follow his own mind, formed

the religion of idol (self) worship, which dominated man to this present age,

setting a pattern for rebellion, living in estrangement from YHWH. Why did

YHWH want an exact replica of His heavenly worship system on the earth? To

feel at home among us!

The only authentic religion which the Eternal One himself, revealed to mankind

was documented in Scripture, later termed Judaism. Since that time, many man-

made polluted replicas of the original have appeared. Some, like Islam, have

taken the one God (title), given him a different name and appointed prophets by

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modifying the system of religious service to please a dissimilar culture of men.

They are all counterfeits, men introducing their own gods, but maintaining

distorted principles of the religion of YHWH. All have an altar; all have sacrifices;

all offer prayers; all believe in life after death, and all have priesthoods. Others,

including Christians and Jews, have altered YHWH’s system by introducing

traditions that have nullified the power of Elohim’s Word (Mar 7:7-13). Many

have used Elohim’s religion as a pretext for spreading their personal ideas and

concepts. In effect, they have created a god in their own personal image and

have created their own faith to worship the god they have made.

YHWH, however, always kept for Himself, a remnant, people who chose to follow

and worship Him, regardless of the cost. Abraham was such a man, and YHWH

cut a covenant of faith and obedience with him, authenticating and sanctioning it

by issuing the Torah on Mount Sinai, and validating it again by sending Yahshua

to the earth. As a warranty of his co-operation Abraham had to be circumcised in

order to prove his commitment, and therefore, became the first Hebrew (or Jew).

YHWH instituted Judaism as His earthly pattern of worship, outlining the details

to Moshe years later.

This falling away of YHWH’s authentic unadulterated worship has become the

mayor theoretical issue in the religious world, and one cannot begin to address

restoration to His original pattern of worship on the earth, if these issues are not

addressed and brought to the light; for investigation and corrective measures.

Therefore, this treatise critically examines and discusses the causes and effects of

the apostasy from the True faith and worship of the living God. The main issues

addressed in this discourse (Chapter Two), are divergent and are divided into

categories, yet once analysed; they form the epitome of the extent of the falling

away or apathy of the believers. In this chapter I adopted a historical approach,

and went right back to search for the root. This research was then divided into

different topics, as the Spirit led. He taught me to examine each category from a

westernised as well as Hebraic perspective, which is of paramount importance as

Christianity is derived from Judaism. The words apathy and falling away will be

utilised interchangeably, as they refer to the status of the Church per sé, and

aptly describe the status of the Church at present.

Examining the first category established anti-Semitism as one of the leading

causes for the falling away of the modern day Church. Over the past centuries,

there has been a dramatic increase in Anti-Semitism, and the Church corporately

and collectively, failed the Jewish nation who is the Custodians of the Scriptures.

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Researching the term and ideology of Replacement Theology, confirmed this

statement, and we will still discuss this statement in depth.

Examining the second category introduced the Person of the Holy Spirit, or the

Ruach HaKodesh, as known in Hebrew and His relevancy to the Body of believers.

To measure believers’ relationship with Him, a 50-point questionnaire on the

Person and gifts of the Holy Spirit was presented (e-mailed) to over a 1000

believers. There was a very low-key response to this questionnaire (30 people

completed it). However, this method of analysis has a number of limitations;

working through the electronic media confirmed to me the perception of non-

involvement, people distancing themselves from so-called emotionalism. Others

used the opportunity to run the Church down or utilised this platform to voice

grievances and anger. Most questions were answered with a yes or no, despite

the questions being open-ended. Without being overly critical, it is obvious that

there is a total lack of knowledge regarding His Person and therefore negating His

Giftings to the Church. The main limitation on discussing the Holy Spirit is that if

a person does not know Him experientially, they cannot answer the questions.

Many times, what can be known of Him is seen on television, and the perception

is that the work of the Spirit is for the chosen few. In Chapter One (1) introduced

Him from an Old Covenant as well as Renewed Covenant perspective.

In Chapter Three, His giftings were extensively discussed and linked to each of

the Spiritual Offices as indicated in Ephesians 4. As advancement to this study, a

larger audience was targeted for personal interviews; it was done in class and

church context, however, the most significant answers came from students.

Finally, an apostate church equals a church that has lost her Hebraic identity,

which equals an absence of the Presence of the Ruach HaKodesh! Here one

needs to note that the word Church does not exist in the Hebrew language.

The third category investigated the possibility that the Church/Qahal rejected her

Hebraic Roots and legacy. Here the role of the Great High Priest, the priests and

the Feasts of YHWH were analysed. The emphases were placed on their roles in

order to add value for the modern day Believer, who does not have access to

Temple worship and service. Therefore, they will not clearly understand their

appointment as a Kingdom of Priests unto YHWH.

Subsequently, I introduced a summary of church history to illustrate the steady

decline from a Church that Yahshua empowered on the Day of Pentecost to an

inoperative apostate church governed by pious people in a religious system, void

of Holy Spirit Power and Presence. This concluded the study of this section with

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the hypothesis that the Church has lost her identity and power and the author if

of the opinion that the Hebraic Roots need to be restored to the Body Corporate.

You may now think, no not history! I had that in school; have patience I was of

the same opinion. However, I had a teachable spirit – and saw the pattern of the

enemy stealing from us our Hebraic Legacy. Consequentially, this attitude caused

Believers to be disinherited from the commonwealth of Israel!

The fourth category, identified as the Drama of the End-time, is one of the

foremost causes for the apathy and apostate condition of the church. According

to Eschatology teaching and biblical prophecies, the human race is heading

towards final Judgement. Utilising Scripture, I focused on the behaviour pattern

of people, instead of the obvious signs of time, called natural disasters, i.e.

earthquakes, famine, diseases, wars and rumours of wars, floods, typhoons and

tsunamis. Measuring and comparing the behaviour patterns of the human race

against Scripture, is a definite confirmation of human behaviour prior to the

imminent judgement. The outcomes of such comparisons are critical indicators

of an apostate Church/Qahal and that the Church needs to be filled with the Holy

Spirit in order to survive the coming apocalypse; the time of persecution has

come. The conclusion to this section is that the Church ought to repent of the sin

of ignorance and pray for Restoration.

The living YHWH made this invitation: This day, I call upon the heaven and the

earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death,

the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring

will live. Even though one has freedom of choice, nevertheless, YHWH instructs

one to choose the portion of life. (Deuteronomy 30:19).

This fact finding mission is aimed at the truth seeker who wishes to restore

YHWH’s righteousness to the Church and to provide a new understanding of the

spiritual principle: The Restoration of all things, which is the desire of YHWH’s

heart. Every angle of the apostasy in the church/Qahal has been researched, as

well as the cause and effects of the breakdown in the relationship with the Holy

Spirit. Recommendations for the Restoration will be proposed with the intention

of restoring the Hebraic Legacy to the 21st

Century Hebraic Qahal or Messianic

Church – bringing restoration to the Remnant that has a hearing ear – “He that

has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies” Revelation 3:6.

Throughout many years of being in the ministry, I have encountered a problem

and phenomenon within the Church of the 21st

century, which nobody could

explain away! When I compared the Presence, power and relationship with the

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Holy Spirit within the Antioch (Acts) Hebraic Church to the modern day Church, it

has become apparent that the 21st

century Western Church does not have, and

entirely lacks, that level of power, Presence and relationship of the Spirit. This

lack is evident in the lives of individuals’ as well as the Body corporate. The

Modernised 21st

Century Church, in comparison with the Apostle Paul (1+2

Corinthians, Galatians, Acts), will not take a stand against sin, corruption and

lawlessness for various reasons, as outlined in the following paragraphs and

chapters.

I will often speak of the Western World Church and Modern Day Church. Bearing

in mind that a Jewish Jesus (Hebrew Name is Yahshua) empowered Jewish men

and women, in the Temple, in Jerusalem, in Israel on the Sabbath with His Holy

Spirit. He poured out His Holy Spirit in the Middle-East, not America or Europe.

For the sake of South African readers, we are Africans, not Westerners. We may

have developed a Hellenistic mindset as part of the traditions carried over from

the Church Fathers, but our culture and thought patterns are purely South

African. We do not think, talk or act like Europe or America – we have a distinct

African flavour. Therefore, you, as the reader, will be challenged to read and

think out of the box, to come out of your comfort zone, and investigate the Truth

for yourself. For too many years, South Africans especially, blindly obeyed the

traditions of their forefathers or be labelled a rebel! Even so now, the Scriptures

says, O YHWH, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of

affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say,

Surely our fathers (us) have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them,

Jer 16:19. These untruths (teaching) that we have inherited will be investigated.

When I began to study the workflow and Presence of the Spirit in the modern day

church, I found that there are many reasons why the church or Body of Yahshua,

has stagnated – as a result there is little growth in the spreading of the Gospel.

As a matter of fact, the only religion that is currently growing faster than

Christianity is the Muslim religion. This is especially applicable to Europe. The

Gospel is spreading like wild fire in Africa! There are many church hoppers,

people who hop from one church to the other if their ears are not tickled

appropriately, or their demands not met. But non- or barely new souls are born

into the Kingdom of YHWH – The reasons compelled me to ask questions

regarding my concerns: why is there no growth in the Church, no new souls, none

or little flow of the Holy Spirit? Very soon I realised it would be naïve to think,

“oh man!, it is the sin in the Church, that is why the Spirit has withdrawn”.

“Repent of the sin and His Holy Presence will be restored”. Those were originally

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my thoughts until the Holy Spirit ever so gently spoke to me and said: “That is

Marianne’s way. Are you prepared to listen to My Sprit and be taught”?

These questions led me into an interesting journey – I most definitely did not

expect such an outcome. Yet the outcome is so profound that it could change

the heart and attitude of every teachable person, which would result in the

Restoration of the powerful Presence of the Holy Spirit, called the Ruach

HaKodesh in Hebrew.

One has to study the reasons for these phenomena by asking the correct thought

provoking questions:

• Could it be that the Gospel, (which, according to the Apostle Paul, is the

power of God), is not preached with anointing of the Holy Spirit? (I am not

ashamed of the Gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who

has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, Rom 1:16). What we

understood from the history of the first Church is that when one preaches

the Gospel of Yahshua; Him being the Messiah, Healer and Redeemer -

YHWH worked together by confirming this truth with signs wonders and

miracles. Is the Church still preaching this truth today? The first Church, as

described in the book of Acts, had an alive, vibrant relationship with the

Spirit and He physically and spiritually were present in everything the

Apostles did.

• Could it be that the Church has become seeker-sensitive to such an extent

that it compromises on the truths as contained in the Word? Could it be that

the Church has become embarrassed in this modern era by the so-called

emotionalism in the Church? Too, discomfited to allow speaking in tongues

in the church, for fear that a stranger arriving at the church would be

offended? It is clear from Scripture that speaking in tongues are for the

unbelievers; confirming the statement that the church has become apostate.

So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for

unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not

unbelievers. Even so, if unbelievers or people who don't understand these

things come into your meeting and hear everyone talking in an unknown

language, they will think you are crazy. But if all of you are prophesying, and

unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into your

meeting, they will be convicted of sin, and they will be condemned by what

you say. As they listen, their secret thoughts will be laid bare, and they will

fall down on their knees and worship God, declaring, "God is really here

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among you”, 1Co 14:22 -25. Subsequently, the flow and of the gifts the Holy

Spirit should be standard procedure in the New Covenant church.

• Could it be that such shame for the flow and gifts of the Spirit is offending

and grieving the Holy Spirit, that He is actually withdrawing from the Church?

• Could it be that the Church has developed a fear for the opinion of men and

therefore is compromising on the Gospel truths? Has the Church become a

social club with all its programs? Yes, there are people who are ostracised by

their communities for accepting Yahshua as Messiah, but in the Western

world, they are in the minority. It is the experience of the author that this

happens mostly within the African (Idol worshipping) and the Muslim

communities.

• Could it be that man has become so modern, so self-sufficient, and so self-

delusional they do not need Him, the Holy Sprit? Despite of this assumption,

millions are dying in their shame, sin and sickness. The Western world relies

greatly on them-self, but in the developing countries, there are a great need

for the work and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Does the modern Church have any knowledge, understanding or relationship

with her Hebraic Roots?

Contrasting the Modern Day (21st

Century) Church with Early Church

In contrast with the first Apostolic Church as described in the book of Acts, the

21st

century Church cannot, in the same manner, demonstrate the power of the

Holy Spirit in the Church or society. The living visible and active Presence

(Shekinah Glory) of Yahshua has departed from the Church. This has caused sin

to abound and loss of respect for the judgment or input from believers.

Another deviation from the first Apostolic Church, who had a profound

knowledge of the person and the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit

(Yahshua), is the modern day trend to depend on self instead of on Him.

Contemporary agnostic doctrine implies that the resurrected Messiah is only a

myth living in the imagination of believers, and this has caused believers to be

wary of any Holy Spirit teaching. They actually fear His indwelling Presence,

being afraid that they may receive a counterfeit spirit. Due to this lack of

knowledge, believers fear that the Spirit might cause them to do things that will

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embarrass them, instead of permitting Him to LIVE in them in order to

demonstrate His power. Traditional churches warn their congregants against

the sects that speak in tongues and against baptism by immersion, teaching

them to trust more in their doctrines, than in the immutable Word of YHWH.

Apparent lack of knowledge in the Western World Church

Whilst researching on the World Wide Web for available material, it was

discovered that there are not many authors or pastors that venture into the topic

of the manifest Presence of the Holy Spirit, and hardly enough information are

available on the causes for the absence of his Presence in the Church today.

Many authors made conflicting statements pertaining to the Holy Spirit, but no

one had a Scriptural basis for their findings. The author do not wish to confuse

the reader with comments that will create confusion or deception and will

therefore refrain from publishing contradictory statements, which are human

opinion, the goal of this book being to restore to – and not to add confusion.

The current deficient, powerless spiritual condition of the Church (Rev 3:17)

warrants investigation, the causes and effects will be analysed and reported to

the Body Corporate. Every passing Sunday substantiates the need for such

investigation, as one does not routinely see (as with the first Apostolic Church),

any deliverance, healing or born again souls in the Church, especially in the

Western world. The Church has become a traditional religious system. Do note

that this does not include the persecuted Church in China and other communist

countries, which are vibrant, active churches. The author is addressing the

modern day Western World Church and therefore, created this book as a

framework of reference for students who are hungry for the truth as found in the

Word and not based on the opinion of man. The terms Western World Church

and Modern day Church will be utilised interchangeably.

Lastly, the western world Church has rejected the Torah as old-fashioned,

legalistic and outdated, and do not understand what the term Everlasting

Covenant or Statute means. The church chose to reject the Torah, forgetting that

it formed the foundation of all the Messiah’s teachings. He did not reject the

Torah; in fact, He said that He has come to fulfil it. If you love me, obey my

commandments; so how does one declare the Torah as obsolete? Messiah

Yahshua did not have the New Covenant available then! When one does an

exposition on Rev 22:14, keeping Torah is a requirement to kingdom entry!

Confirmation that these verses in the original Hebrew signify the Torah, the

spoken Word of YHWH, is found in John 14 and 1Joh 5.2.

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There are, however, an awakening among believers (Hebraic Restoration

movement) with regard to the value of the Torah and Old Covenant Scriptures.

People mostly quote Old Covenant verses to condemn and judge someone or for

the “prosperity” that they will receive by just speaking the verses over their lives

– with no regard to the One Who spoke those words into reality – and then

blames YHWH for the disappointment of expectations that did not realise. Yet,

not one is honest enough to look at the conditions and criteria for such blessings.

What is the result of such a prosperity religion? People become angry with

YHWH and blame Him for their problems. They sit in church Sunday (pagan

worship day) after Sunday, going through the religious rituals, but angry that this

quoted Word did not actualize into anything for them; they missed the basics of

understanding the Spoken Word.

The purpose of this book is to eradicate such lack of knowledge, which is the

leading cause for not seeing the manifest Presence of the Holy Spirit. This book

is, for the most part, devoted to research and substantiates the statements made

in the above-mentioned paragraphs, which formed the theme and basis of this

research.

Research is the process of elimination and whatever remains is the truth. It is a

great challenge to research and discover the cause and effects that led to a

powerless Church - that proves these statements.

The author needs to refine the understanding of Who the Holy Spirit is, His role

and function within the Church as well as in the individual. As well as providing a

new understanding of His Gifts/Offices as allocated to the Church corporately

and individuals respectively, for the perfecting of the saints.

Elaborating on my reasons for Venturing into this Research Project

• Firstly, the Church has rejected Her Hebraic Roots, forgetting that the

Messiah was a Torah observant Jewish man and Rabbi – from this

perspective, consider His anointing whilst being Torah observant and filled

with the Holy Spirit!

• Secondly, to restore to the Church her former glory as in the days of the first

Apostles. It was no incidence that they observed Torah; being obedient to

the instructions given millenniums ago in the desert. Being a Torah an

observant person, involves one in a lifestyle of purity, holiness and grace. As

documented in Early church history, when more and more non-Jewish

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people/gentiles, became believers, they brought into Christianity many of

their former pagan gods’ religious doctrines that have contaminated the

Church and robbed her of its power and anointing – and stealing Her Hebraic

inheritance. This statement will be clarified in Chapter Two when Church

history is discussed.

• Thirdly, to eradicate the very curse of racism which is active in the Church,

especially anti-Semitism;

• Fourthly, to eradicate sin from the Church and restore it to holiness, since

the unbelievers see the in-fighting in the Church, the sin, the sick and

struggling and know that they already have enough problems without even

becoming a Christian;

• Fifthly, to empower believers to receive the Presence of the Holy Spirit,

therefore lost souls can be won. The desired outcome for this research

would be to create a aspiration in the hearts of all Believers to sacrifice their

comfort Zone lifestyle by being prepared to take responsibility for the Person

of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The author has an expectation to target the

broader Messianic (Hebraic) Church community, as well as the South African

Jewish community with the truths as they will be revealed.

• Sixthly, with this study as a guideline, the author anticipates working

reconciliation and unity between the Two Houses of YHWH (Israel and

Judah).

• Seventh, the long-term objective is to teach the Truth and unconditionally

allow the Holy Spirit to work through a person, until He manifests His

glorious Presence on a daily basis to the Torah observant and obedient

disciples, Jews and Gentiles alike. Another long-term goal is to encourage

Believers to strive towards seeing His manifest Presence - and then to

experience His healing power because of utmost obedience. The researcher

is aware that this might only be achieved during the Theocratic Millennial

Rule, however, there is a Word that says, Prepare YE the way! Jew and

Gentile alike have a role to play during this reign and therefore now is the

time to prepare for this time-period.

• To change the Believers westernised mindset to a Messianic or Hebraic way

of thinking is another long-term goal, and not only the mindset but, also a

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cultural lifestyle change to living the Torah under the guidance of the Holy

Rauch. Believers must choose to come out of a culture and lifestyle that is

not pleasing to YHWH. Only then will the modern day church embrace her

Hebraic Root and Hebrew family.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESEARCH FOR THE BODY CORPORATE

The Longman Exams Dictionary defines significance as having an important effect

or influence on what will happen in the future, aptly describing why this study is

conducted, its outcome will have a profound impact on the believers in the near

future.

Therefore, where does one begin to do the research for Restoring the Person,

Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit? The following questions come to mind:

• What does the author want to achieve with this research?

• Who are the target audience for the research and the outcomes? And why is

it important for them to acquire this knowledge and will it add value to their

spiritual and personal lives?

• Where does one find answers to this problem and phenomena? What

resources for the research are available for me?

Each of the following topics have a significant effect on the believers’ spiritual,

emotional and material life, and therefore necessitates research in order to

clarify the underlying causes and effects of the absence of the manifest Presence

of the Holy Spirit:

There is an identified need to study the background and causes of the apathy of

the Modern Day Church and why the Body does not have a vibrant active

relationship with the Holy Spirit. During a Google search on the World Wide

Web, one will find that there are for instance one million six hundred references

on the Internet to apathy in the church, mostly negative. There are even

churches for agnostics and apathetic people. It will be almost impossible to make

a systematic review of all the postings done on the web sites, yet the author

critically read through many posted pages in order to download the literature

that has substance and is not subversive to the church. Yet, by just reading the

postings one obtains a new insight of what is out there and how people think! It

makes one realise that the church at large, does not have favour with the public

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anymore! It changes ones perspective to become more circumspectly in one

approach and conduct. The believers are to create and live through the Spirit of

excellence in the Church and public.

• Each believer individually and personally ought to know the Person,

Presence, Power and work of the Holy Spirit in the Tanach and Renewed

Covenant; and

• The effects of the Deception of Replacement Theology on the believers

spiritual growth;

• To identify if the believer has a Hebraic Legacy and how to counter the

perceived animosity and negation of their Hebraic Roots;

• The negation of the Priestly role of the modern Believer due to lack of

knowledge of Hebraic worship and roots;

• The disappearance of the Urim and Thummim, which represents the

manifest Presence of the Holy Spirit;

• Finally, why are there resistance to operating in the gifts of the Spirit, yet

believers appoint apostles who are not filled with the Spirit? Who

commends one to the different Offices and giftings of the Spirit, and what

are the appointing criteria?

In summary of the above questions, I have concluded that all books to date has

tended to focus on the gifts of the Spirit (excluding relationship with Abba) for

personal benefit or enrichment; and that

• The gifts were not utilised for the profit of all as set out in Scripture.

• However, insufficient attention has been paid to the impact of anti-Semitism

on the Church and her deficient performance and powerlessness.

• There were no controlled studies conducted to compare or link the Gifts to

the different Offices of the Spirit. Therefore, it is of paramount importance

to introduce this field of study for the benefit of both Households of YHWH.

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This is the 21st

century and humankind is on the avant-garde of technology! One

just has to look at the communication technology to know that whatever

happens in the remotest part of the earth is communicated into nearly every

household on the earth. There is not a speciality field or discipline today, which

is not explored or researched, whichever for the upliftment of humanity, or the

eradication of poverty and disease management, or just for pure greed. Billions

of dollars are spent on developing new technology, disease preventing vaccines

and education. There has never been a time where knowledge has increased at

such a vast rate; what is new today, is old news tomorrow.

Yet, with all the available technology and knowledge, there is something greatly

missing on the face of the earth. One just has to look at the amounts spend on

anti-depressants and mind-altering drugs to realise that with all the increased

knowledge and technology, there is a void, an emptiness in man. People are

rushing back and forth, but on the inside, they are dying of emotional pain, fear,

loneliness and diseases. The reason for this is that with all its progress and

technology, scientists cannot address the condition of the heart (emotionally).

It is apparent that with all the progress and modernisation on the earth, there

are two things that did not change; YHWH, the living God and the heart of man.

God is Spirit, and has Everlasting Spiritual Laws and Covenants in place, law and

covenants that cannot be changed or violated (Rom 7:14). More and more the

Voice of the Church is drowning in the sea of humanity’s sin. Humankind has

become so self-sufficient, so self-reliant and so selfish that they have created the

deception or illusion that the there is no place YHWH in their lives. The immoral

lifestyle, the homosexuality, the pornography, divorce and broken families, greed

and abortion have become a daily occurrence in the lives of many. Not only are

they drowning out the Voice of the Church, at this present time, the world is

drowning in debt and the recession - poverty has spiralled out of control, millions

die in famine and there are currently not a country that does not experience

some political turmoil or environmental disasters or calamities i.e. floods, fire or

earthquakes.

When one looks at the grim picture as painted above the question does arise:

where is the Church, what is Her role in a time such as this? When the sinners

look at the lives of most Christians today, they say: I this is what Christianity is

about, no thank you, I have enough problems of my own. What an allegation

against the Church! When one studies the lives of today’s western world

believers, there is no difference between them and the sinners; the same in-

fighting, jealousy, strife, gossip and slander, sickness, poverty, adultery and

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addictions rule supreme in the Church of today. Their love for each other is

superficial and many uses the intimate knowledge that they gain at a cell meeting

to spread gossip and slander – even the Church has lost its sense of integrity, the

Church has compromised on sin.

Can the Church still make a difference today, in the 21st

century? Has the

apostasy in the Church gone to far to renew the Church to Her original calling?

For the sake of clarity in the Longman Exam dictionary, the word “Apostasy” is

defined as when someone suddenly stops believing in a religion or supporting a

political party. This definition aptly describes the situation within the Church

today. One does not have to seek them out, the hurting ones; they all carry the

scars of being hurt in the Church! The Church is not a safe sanctuary anymore.

This is even sadder within the African communities; due to the ancestral worship

culture, should someone become a believer, that person is ostracised by their

families and communities, therefore the Church become their family. Only to

find that it is no longer a safe haven. In the Church, carnal pastors exploit many

of the young single women. More and more people are withdrawing from the

Church and become agnostics and apostate.

APOSTASY AND APATHY IN THE BODY CORPORATE

Where did apostasy start in the Church? The author studied the opinions of many

persons, who made their postings on the internet, and here are some of their

opinions:

• Tony Robinson, Torah Restoration Ministries, in his e-book, Restoration of

Torah wrote the following: “Their (false) teachings (against the Jews)

flourished and took root within the hearts and minds of the early Gentile

believers. Until the time of Constantine, Christians suffered many

persecutions. However, after Constantine won the battle of the Milvian

Bridge he issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD. Although this edict did not

make Christianity the official religion of the empire, he claimed to be a

Christian, put an end to Christian persecutions, placing Christianity on an

equal footing before the law with other religions of the empire.

Furthermore, Constantine showered favours upon the Church. He granted

large sums of money, and erected magnificent Church buildings in numerous

places (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Constantinople and other places) and granted

many other privileges. With a sitting Emperor confessing Christianity, it was

no longer a shame to be a Christian. Now, being a Christian could even

secure great material and social advantages such as political, military and

social promotion. As a result, many heathens and pagans entered the

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Church. Of course, they brought their pagan influences with them. Because

of the deepening spiritual vacuum of humble Apostolic leadership in the

Church of the Western Roman Empire, the Church leaders were more than

happy to pacify the heathens by allowing them to continue their pagan

practices in the name of Christianity. As a result, the heathens brought into

the Church numerous unscriptural practices and doctrines of men, which

superseded the immutable Word of YHWH and brought further corruption

and apostasy into the Church. Obviously, throughout Church history YHWH

always had a remnant of truly faithful followers. But they were always the

minority and always persecuted.

• Robinson, who studied the different phases of the Church Reformation,

asked the following question: Did the Reformation teach the believers any

lessons? History clearly shows that the condition of the Western Roman

Church (the root from which Protestantism sprang) was apostate in direct

fulfilment of Paul’s prophecy in First and Second Timothy (this however does

not negate a future or present apostasy of similar or greater proportions).

This apostasy was due in large part to a replacement of Biblical authority by

doctrines of men and suppression of the Hebraic roots of the New Covenant

faith. The foundation for the Reformation was to be found in people who

cherished the belief that the only authority for authentic faith and doctrine

was the Bible. The Reformation occurred because people began to base their

convictions on the Word of YHWH instead of upon decrees of men. The

reader’s attention is directed at the words Hebraic Roots, as this concept

Hebraic Roots will be extensively addressed.

• George H Warnock (Paraphrased) draws the attention to the current

apostasy: Political and religious leaders are bargaining the reigning over, and

controlling of, taking over earth's resources, promoting their own

governments, presidents, prime ministers and officials interests. (Whilst

mankind is killing each other for world dominion, YHWH, our Elohim, in

contrast is grieving over a backslidden and rebellious Church). This is also the

experience of the author that YHWH is grieving over His Body! Nevertheless,

YHWH made provision in the Hour of Apostasy; the Urim and Thummim. This

stone was the most reliable source of communication between God and His

nation in the Tanach times. However, it soon became extinct in Israel, due to

their continued disobedience and dispersions. God nevertheless, was faithful

to bring forth that clear word of Urim even in times of darkness and apostasy

(Nehemiah and Ezra). The living Elohim must have one who would stand

before Him in true priestly ministry and deliver a pure, unadulterated word

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to His people - no matter how apostate that people may have become. The

Urim and Thummim will comprehensively be discussed as it has direct

bearing on the person of the Holy Spirit.

• Paraphrasing George Warnock’s commentary on the apostasy prior to the

entrée of John the Baptist; Warnock stated that 400 years had gone by since

Malachi had come to the nation with a clear word from YHWH. Then Israel’s

greatest prophet, John was born. Yahshua said that of all born of women,

There bath not risen a greater than John the Baptist, (Mat 11:11). Never was

there greater apostasy in Israel than when John arose in the spirit and power

of Elijah, and he sounded forth the call to repentance. Believers who had

discernment knew that YHWH appointed John the Baptist, to the Office of

Prophet – the signs and wonders confirming the appointment. The Apostle

Luke narrated the very highly organized political and religious systems that

were in place at the time. It was right here in the midst of gross apostasy

that these words are read, The word of God came unto John the son of

Zacharias in the wilderness, Luk 3:2. Out there in the wilderness, Elohim

began to send forth a clear Word from His heart: Repent, for the Kingdom of

Heaven is at hand. The message was very clear: only one thing is acceptable

to YHWH, Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, Luk 3:8. One

cannot trust in racial or religious heritage, - even if one is the son of

Abraham. If one does not bear fruit that is pleasing to YHWH, the axe is

ready to cut down every fruitless tree. It is of paramount importance to note

that only repentance is acceptable to YHWH when one has fallen into an

apostate spiritual condition. Paraphrased: http://www.georgewarnock.com)

(italics mine).

Before the Grace dispensation, apostasy also reigned supreme, and YHWH

introduced another Voice, clear and distinct from the rest - a Voice that would

herald the coming of an entirely new Kingdom, the Voice of Yahshua. Once

again, in the 21st

century, the stage is set and the inhabitants of the earth are in

the midst of a very highly organized political empires and religious systems, and

Messiah ready to make His entrée. The stage is set for the sudden re-appearance

of Great High Priest Yahshua, this time not as Messiah Ben Yoseph, but Messiah

Ben David; and the End of the Grace Dispensation!

The current study on determining the apostate condition of the Church has

introduced the author to various opinions and inputs, and one need to

differentiate between opinions. On an Internet website, the unknown author

(http://www.jeremiahproject.com) quoted this thought provoking Scripture

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regarding the end of the Grace Dispensation, At that time, many will turn away

from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will

appear and deceive many people, (Mat 24:11). His comments on this Scripture

are; there will be a revival of the Spirit of Religion that will sweep the world in the

last days. It will however, not represent the Truth - instead, false gospels,

prophets, and messiahs will deceive the multitudes. The church in America and

Africa, and indeed the entire world, is sinking deeper into the last-days apostasy

as foretold by Messiah and His apostles. Yahshua warned that false prophets will

appear and deceive many people in the last days; counterfeit teachers and

preachers are gaining in popularity while more and more people are turning to

their idols of destruction. It would appear that satan is well on the way to

success in his goal to enslave the world, and to accomplish his dark objectives.

He has re-established his church, the Mystery Babylon (Rev 17), which are the

Islamic and other false religions.

Finally there is the highly esteemed book of Prof W A Liebenberg, The Rape of the

Torah in the New Covenant (2009), in which Prof Liebenberg goes to great

lengths to not only demonstrate the apostasy of the Church from her first love,

The Torah, but to proof it with Scripture. In addition, he then challenges the

reader to investigate the truth with him – and believe. Prof Liebenberg is not

afraid to uncover the different false religions as well as the non-biblical form of

religion that Christianity is currently practicing. This book is available at

www.hrti.co.za or e-mail to products@hrti.co.za .

Counterfeit Christianity leading to Apostasy and Apathy in the Church

False forms of Religion have become increasingly popular in modern day culture

and it seems there is a resurgence of interest in things spiritual. There are the

millions throughout the world who are involved in the occult, astrology,

witchcraft, spiritualism and Satanism. The Harry Potter series fantasy novels

promoting witchcraft among children, as written by author J. K. Rowling have

sold more than 325 million copies and is translated into more than 64 languages,

which confirms the theory that the Church has become apostate. Parents are

angry when warned against the demonic impact of the Harry Potter movies; they

have developed a tolerance for evil and manifestation of spirits.

Daniel, the Prophet (Dan 2:32-45), prophesied a Word of knowledge saying that a

time-period called iron and clay will be prevalent in the last days, good and evil

will have to get along until the Rock is released from Heaven. The Spirit clearly

says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits

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and things taught by demons. (1Tim 4:1). The most obvious sign of the spiritual

decline of the church is apathy - apathy towards the house of YHWH, His Word

and manifest Presence. Apathy sometimes overtakes a believer - even an entire

body of believers - before they are aware anything is wrong. The fruit of apathy is

apostasy. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.

Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of

teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears

away from the truth and turn aside to myths, (2Tim 4:3-4).

The appearances of these false gospels, false Christ's and false prophets is only a

prelude to the final apostasy. They are only preparing the way for the ultimate

antichrist, who will set himself up in the temple and declare himself to be God.

One might say he is currently preparing his followers to accept his ultimate lie.

WHAT FUELS APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH?

There are numerous causes for apostasy and apathy in the Church, and several

authors agree that the following are the most relevant:

• Unbelief:

Implicit or explicit rejection of the authority of Elohim’s Word is propagated

throughout the Church, often; it seems, with the explicit purpose of leading His

people away from His Word, and sometimes to the active encouragement of

immorality. Pulpits across the world are silent about sin and do not tell their

congregations of their need for repentance. Rather, they preach a politically

correct gospel of tolerance of sin.

In the book, The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown claims almost everything our

fathers taught us about Christ is false. For example, Brown suggests that Jesus

married Mary Magdalene as he raises doubts of the origins and legitimacy of the

authenticity of Christianity. The Da Vinci Code was a worldwide bestseller with

more than 60.5 million copies sold. Many pulpits are silent about sin because

those sitting in the pews do not want to hear anything that might shatter their

perceived sense of security. Perhaps the preacher is more interested in the

collection plate and he believes that if he preaches anything controversial, he will

lose some large contributors.

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• Ignorance

Without regular communication with YHWH through prayer and systematic study

of His Word, one is at the mercy of the doctrinal false teachings that are raging in

the church today. Much of Christendom is now in an apostate condition as

professing believers accept new revelations even though it conflicts with, and

contradicts the revealed Word of God. New Age occultism of every variety is

exploding not only in the secular world, but also in the church in what is indeed

the greatest worldwide revival of paganism ever known. Spanning the globe and

encompassing hundreds of millions of teachers and disciples, it has within its fold

thousands of individual cults, churches, groups, and organizations. Those who

preach a distorted gospel are even gaining strategic leadership positions in

denominations and theological schools, enabling them to deceive and mislead

many within the church.

• Fear of the unknown

A sizeable part of the church is held in bondage because of fear of the unknown.

They don't know their Bibles and they don't know about the promises of YHWH.

Rather, they rely on what others tell them. Self-help books flourish and authors

fill bookshelves with titles extolling every kind of human wisdom - but they do

not contain the truth of Scripture or input from the Spirit.

Fear drives some to seek knowledge in places where truth is the most distorted.

New Age teachers abound with messages from ascended masters and spirit

guides. For example, one popular quasi-Christian movement surrounds the

writings of authors who teaches that the world, sin, sickness are all illusions

which can be overcome with the power of the mind. Where one finds such

teaching, one will often also find teachings about reincarnation, Yoga, dream rap,

channelling, Christ consciousness, pyramidology, astrology, meditation,

metaphysics, shamanism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. One might expect to find

these teachings at some remote New Age retreat center, but incredibly, many

Sunday school classes in some mainline Christian churches utilize the texts. For

many Christians caught in the web of fear, profess their faith, but look to works

for their salvation for they have no faith. They judge others according to their

works for that is their only barometer, i.e. that which they can see. They walk by

sight exclusively and not by faith. What can I do for Him and not what can He do

through me? They can be very busy workers, but they do not listen to the Voice.

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• Carnality

There is little focus on Messiah Yahshua’s second coming because that would end

the pursuit of pleasure and materialism. Instead of being YHWH centered and

Him being the object of ones adoration, the carnal, western church is attracted to

a celebrity, an evangelist, a project, a political cause, a fund-raising campaign, a

new building, or miracles and healings (without commitment). Faith has turned

to fantasizing with a message of health, wealth, and comfort. In that kind of

environment easy believism flourishes, and many people who associate

themselves with the church aren't even Christians. They may have a form of

godliness, but they deny its power. Satan is still using this form of deception, and

often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness. While

propagating that which brings death and darkness to the mind and heart of the

sinner, they profess to be representatives of enlightened living. This is satanic

deception.

Theology in many modern churches is focused on meeting people's needs, on

solving one's own problems so one can live more comfortably. Few churches hold

to a Yahshua-centered faith that helps a believer stand in the midst of his trials.

For all too often the 21st

century church takes its cues and defines its role by the

ways of the world. It accommodates a consumer-oriented culture that wants,

above all else, to feel good. It focuses on action at the expense of character and

integrity, on doing rather than being. There is nothing wrong with seeking to

meet people's needs or creating programs to do so. The church setting should be

an environment where non-Christians feel welcome. The church should grow. But

when programs and growth become the central focus, the church is in danger of

profaning her first Love; (paraphrased: Charles Colson, The Body, pg. 381).

THERE ARE MORE TO THE APOSTASY

The above aspects have clearly defined the central theme of the apostate

position of the Church and the Body corporate. The above expose has mainly

addressed the current apostate situation, but this researcher is of the opinion, in

agreement with Robinson’s statement, that there are two very old, unaddressed

situations in the Church and is to her opinion, the main reason for the apostate

Church – the prophesied end-times and the lost Hebraic legacy of the Western

World Church.

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• The Signs Of The Times

The prophet Joel prophesied the following regarding the end times: And

afterward (in the future, after the restoration of Israel) I will pour out My Spirit

upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men

shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Even upon the

menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit,

Joe 2:28,29. Here one can understand that there is a final Holy Spirit outpouring

prophesied for the near future. However, before one can begin to look for this

glorious moment (should one live to experience it), what is the current situation

in the world today? One must remember that when the prophet Joel prophesied

these words, he also prophesied the near extinction of mankind, due to the

impending outpouring of God's judgment on a sin-sick world. The prophet Joel

was prophesying to the remnant of the end-times, those that survived the wrath

of YHWH.

Before one can attempt to restore the Person and active Presence of the Holy

Spirit to the Church, one needs to take notice of current world affairs. The

apostasy is not only in the Church; humankind as a whole is in a downward spiral

towards destruction. – in fulfillment of Biblical prophecies – and the New World

Dis-order, where is it taking the human race? Why does the world seem to be

crumbling into chaos? Can one restrain the forces of anarchy? Is it possible to

right the course of the severely straying civilization and solve its problems? Sadly,

it seems that humankind has no comprehension of the unseen spiritual forces

being arrayed against them (Rev 9), and they either reject or ignore the Holy One

Who offers the only viable solution to the enormous problems afflicting this age.

In Chapter Two, the current world situation is analyzed in the light of these

prophecies. As the drama of the end-times unfolds, it will have an enormous

influence on man turning to, or away, from God and His Holy Spirit.

When one begins to study the signs of the times, it becomes of paramount

importance to compare all the above-mentioned comments and opinions with

the Word of YHWH. The reader should be aware of the fact that the apostasy of

the Church did not happen overnight. Most of the Old Covenant prophets, as

well as Yahshua Himself prophesied this apostasy. It is extremely important to

note that in order to restore the Person and active Presence of the Holy Spirit to

the earth today, that the nations of the world will not tolerate this move. This is

in line with all end-time prophecies. The Rav Shaul expressly stated that there will

be a immense falling away or apostasy of the Church before Messiah returns to

the earth. Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not

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come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of

those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness

(sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition), 2The 2:3. This lawlessness

or iniquity and Torah intolerance is clearly visible. The following Scriptures will

confirm the behaviour patterns of the end-time generation and will be

extensively researched in Chapter Two: 1Tim 4:1-3; 2Tim 3:1-3, 2Tim 4:3,4.

EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF HEBRAIC ROOTS

Before introducing the concept of Hebraic Roots, the reader need to understand

my introduction to the researching of the Torah and eventually Hebraic Roots;

then finally studying the Old Covenant (The Tanach) more deeply. After many

years of ministering healing and conducting classes to teach believers how to

minister the healing power of God (His title), I felt there must be a reason why

does believers not see the type of healings that was a daily occurrence in the life

of Messiah Yahshua and His Apostles? This question leads to the beginning of my

research as to where the healing Covenant originated – in the desert.

In the desert, YHWH, the living God, laid down certain criteria for the Hebrew

nation to live according to, and when they obey and do them, they will be in

perfect health. YHWH the living Elohim and Spirit, not being man and a liar,

instantly healed the nation as one finds the confirmation in Psa 105:37 But he

brought his people safely out of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold; there were no

sick or feeble people among them. At the first Passover, YHWH confirmed His

Covenant of Healing. For many years, the author studied the live of Moshe

(Moses) to the key for the healing phenomenon. It then became apparent that

Moshe had very little to do with the healing. He was the Messenger boy of

YHWH, with all respect. The Truth was in the Torah! Live the Torah and one will

be in perfect health! YHWH spoke those, to date, un-revoked words into

existence – be obedient to and do My Torah, and I will heal you.

Not only live the Torah, but it also became clear that the Hebrew nation lived in

the manifest Presence of the living God; how then can any disease manifest in His

Presence? Then a strange thing happened, I became aware of a change in my

mindset, from a westernised mindset to an Hebraic mindset. I had such an

intense desire to see the manifest Presence of YHWH, that living the Torah

became a way of life. I never became legalistic, as I value the freedom in the

Messiah to much. In living the Torah in the letter of the Spirit – I discovered my

God given identity. Which, in turn, lead to studying the restoration of His

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blessings and divine health - and researching the criteria for the restoration of

the Person, power and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

In order to do this research one has to know Who is the Baptiser in the Holy Spirit

and moreover, does He have any Hebraic links. So Yochanan answered them all, I

am immersing you in water, but he who is coming is more powerful than I — I'm

not worthy to untie his sandals! He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and in fire,

Luk 3:16, (CJB). He is a Jewish Torah observant man, manifested in the flesh as

the Son of YHWH. Prof W A Liebenberg. E-book: The Hebraic Biography of

Yahshua, (2004), has done an all-comprehensive research on the Hebraic Roots

of Yahshua (Jesus) and this author will quote often from his work. In his

Introduction, Prof Liebenberg made the following statement: Modern scholars

have greater access to documents and research developments relating to first-

century Judaism than at any other time in history. Many scholars, who only a few

years ago were trying to disprove the Bible, are now working together to gain a

better understanding of the ancient culture in which Yahshua lived. This book is

available at www.hrti.co.za .

Archaeological finds have become so plentiful that some have hailed these times

as the beginning of a golden age of biblical archaeology. Prof Liebenberg

concludes: All of these discoveries have not only given us further proof of the

veracity of the Bible, but have given us a greater understanding of the period in

which Yahshua lived out His life on the earth and further evidence of the

Jewishness of His teaching. He was Jewish and His teachings reflect His

Jewishness. The church at Rome was admonished by Paul that the Christian faith

was never intended to be a repudiation of its Jewish roots, but rather, the

engrafted Gentile Church was actually a branch that grew out of these roots, Rom

11:18. The essence of this study is that without Judaism there would be no

Christianity. If the Truth-seeker Christian desires to understand your real identity

as believer then you need to research and explore the spiritual truths that YHWH

has painted within the traditions and customs of Biblical Judaism, their Hebraic

root – and believe.

Tony Robinson clarifies the statement of the engrafted Gentile Church made by

Prof Liebenberg. Robinson in his e-book Restoration of Torah (2001) wrote the

following whilst discussing the concept of Hebraic Roots: “I believe the Scriptures

clearly teach that Gentile believers become Israelites through their faith in

Yahshua the Messiah. In doing so, Gentiles become engrafted into the olive tree

of Israel and are to partake in the nourishment from the Israelite root.

Furthermore, it was never the intention of Adonai YHWH for Gentiles to become

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separated from their Hebraic roots to form Gentile Christianity apart from

Messianic Jews. We were to be one in Him”. The author has also learned that

many are resistant to this concept (Hebraic Roots) concerned that by

reintroducing the Jewishness of ones faith, they somehow violate the Spirit of

Grace.

In this study, I am going to examine some Jewish traditions and customs. The fact

is they are actually biblical customs. This mean these traditions are not only

significant to Jews, but that any Bible-Believer can be blessed by an

understanding of Biblical culture. After all, most Christians are aware that the

Messiah lived as a Jew within the land of Israel. He had a Hebrew name, Yahshua

(Yah our Salvation), and all His earliest disciples were Jewish.

Unfortunately, many Gentile believers have had little, if any, exposure to the

Hebraic roots of their own faith. It's a great tragedy that the Christian community

has not understood, for the most part, the rich heritage on which their faith is

built. The Jewish people need to take a fresh look at the biblical/Jewish customs

as well, in order to understand their authentic meaning and purpose. Many in the

Jewish community are being challenged to see the connection between Jewish

culture and the Brit Chadasah - the New Covenant; Jewish writings by Jews for

Jews.

Judaism is the original worship system, which YHWH himself designed, approved,

and gave to his people, the pattern through which his people could commune

with their Maker repeatedly. However, through sin, men have drifted away from

Elohim’s purpose of an intensely intimate, personal relationship. History records

man’s wavering between truth and apostasy, between intense worship and

apathy toward the Living God. Even the vehicles, which God has designed to

bring his people into intimacy with him, have been perverted into lifeless rituals

of vain repetition to the point that I hate your feasts, and “By your traditions you

void the Word of God”.

THE HEBREW MIND VS THE WESTERN AND HELLENISTIC ETHOS AND MINDSET

Hebraism and Hellenism – between these two points of influence move our world,

William Barrett, Irrational Man as quoted by Robinson. With the intention to

assist the Truth seeking scholar in understanding Biblical concepts the author will

utilise a table as drafted by William Barret to highlight the differences between

the two mindsets and or ethos. The researcher will analyze some of the

fundamental differences in the mindset of the Hebrews of Biblical times, and the

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Western, Hellenistic way of thinking, out of which has emerged the bulk of

Christian theology and false doctrines – laying the foundation for Apostasy.

For many of Westerners, the Hebraic mindset is so strange, so alien, and

impossible to fathom, that they quickly revert into the Hellenistic comfort zone

when studying the Tanach and other scriptures. They then impose this distorting

grid over the Hebrew text – or for that matter, over the Greek text of the New

Covenant. Think, for example, in terms of prophetic timetables. Here again is the

Western concept of time – points on a line. The Hebrew mind thinks of the day of

the Lord – that is, the day or time when the Lord acts. The sequential order in

which God will do things is of no concern to the Hebrew – only that he will act.

The Western mind wants to have the prophetic timetable neatly arranged in time

and space. They want to tick off events as they occur according to the pre-

ordained schedule. This mentality is foreign to the Hebrew mind.

When one brings a Westernised scientific approach to the study of Scripture,

without due consideration for the Jewish mentality, culture and ethos behind it,

one may be producing exegetical distortions. To understand the Hebrew cultures

of Biblical times, and the mindset of those who lived through those times, is to

experience a culture shock. Their worldview was very different from the modern

Western mindset that most believers are born into - as the Hebrew nation has

distinctly different thought patterns, which developed over the millenniums of

persecutions. Consider, for a moment how fellow South Africans reason; all lived

in this country for hundreds of years, but think according to their traditional

ethos and patterns. The Hebraic values and perceptions were also radically unlike

the Westerners. The whole Bible was written in a pre-Scientific age. The Hebrew

language itself is unique and therefore, much has been lost in translation to i.e.

English.

When one studies Scripture, or consider the nature of the early New Covenant

Messianic community, you need to take into account the myriad of differences

between Hebrew and Greek philosophy. Intellectually, believers are as Greeks,

not Hebrews; and apply Aristotelian and Socratic thought patterns to practically

everything. It is surprisingly difficult to escape these patterns and enter into the

Hebraic mindset.

One of the most fundamental differences between the Western, Hellenistic mind

and the Hebrew mind is found in the area of knowing vs. doing. The distinction

arises from the difference between doing and knowing. The Hebrew is concerned

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with practice, the Greek with knowledge. Right conduct is the ultimate concern

of the Hebrew; right thinking that of the Greek. Duty and strictness of conscience

are the paramount things in life for the Hebrew; for the Greek, the spontaneous

and luminous play of the intelligence. The Hebrew thus extols the moral virtues

as the substance and meaning of life; the Greek subordinates them to the

intellectual virtue, the contrast is between practice and theory, between the

moral man and the theoretical or intellectual man.

In Biblical Judaism, it is precisely the opposite. Christians are inclined to subject

each other to litmus tests of orthodoxy, while Jews are concerned mainly with

behaviour. As Dennis Prager writes belief in God and acting ethically must be

inextricably linked, God demands right behaviour more than anything else,

including right ritual and right belief. To quote William Barrett again: Hebraism

and Hellenism – between these two points of influence move our world. It was

Gentile Christians, influenced by Greek philosophy, which both intellectualized

and systematized Christian doctrine. Worse, they radically changed much of it.

The Biblical Hebrews, and the Apostolic Era of the Church, had no formal

theology as such. There were no systems; the believing community had not

entrenched hierarchy or magisterium through which all doctrine had to be

filtered and approved. It is basically the same as the unbelieving Jews, opinions

varied from sage to sage. The Israelites Rav around a word of circumstance; Rav

is explained as wrestle like Jacob; they do not just follow opinions blindly, but will

follow the leading of their chosen Rabbi.

What the apostles taught about any given subject was learned directly from

Yahshua, then passed on, or determined by a given scenario - on an "as you go"

basis. They determined Halakha for believers in much the same way the sages of

Israel did – as circumstances changed they rendered decisions about the

application of Torah (Mat 18:18). Acts 15 provides an account of how at least one

teaching concerning requirements for gentile believers was formed around 50

AD. Note the participatory nature of the discussion. The whole of the Church (Act

15:4,12,22), not just an elite hierarchy, was involved.

In the following table, one can compare the Hebraic mode of thinking with the

Western, Hellenistic mode in a variety of categories.

A Comparison between Hebraic and Western mindsets

Western Approach Hebraic Approach

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Life analyzed in precise categories. Everything blurs into everything else.

A split between natural & supernatural Supernatural affects everything.

Linear logic Contextual or "block" logic

Rugged Individualism Importance of being part of group

Equality of persons Value comes from place in

hierarchies

Freedom orientation Security orientation

Competition is good Competition is evil (cooperation

better)

Man-centered universe God/tribe/family-centered universe

Worth of person based on

money/material possessions/power

Worth derived from family

relationships

Biological life sacred Social life supremely important

Chance + cause & effect limit what can

happen

God causes everything in his

universe

Man rules nature through understanding

and applying laws of science

God rules everything, so relationship

with God determines how things

turn out.

Power over others achieved through

business, politics and human

organizations.

Power over others is structured by

social patterns ordained by God.

All that exists is the material The universe is filled with powerful

spirit beings

Linear time divided into neat segments.

Each event is new.

Cyclical or spiraling time. Similar

events constantly reoccur.

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History is recording facts objectively and

chronologically.

History is an attempt to preserve

significant truths in meaningful or

memorable ways whether or not

details are objective facts.

Oriented to the near future Oriented to lessons of history

Change is good = progress Change is bad = destruction of

traditions

Universe evolved by chance Universe created by God

Universe dominated and controlled by

science and technology

God gave man stewardship over his

earthly creation. Accountability to

God.

Material goods = measure of personal

achievement

Material goods = measure of God’s

blessing

Blind faith Knowledge-based faith

Time as points on straight line ("at this

point in time…"

Time determined by content ("In the

day that the Lord did…")

Sources: Irrational Man, by William Barrett; Christianity With Power by Charles

Kraft; Hebrew Thought Compared With Greek by Thorleif Boman; Judaism and

Christianity – The Differences by Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Our Father Abraham, by

Marvin Wilson, God in Search of Man by Abraham Heschel.

To the Jewish mind, the understanding of YHWH is not achieved by referring in a

Greek way to timeless qualities of Supreme Being, to ideas of goodness and

perfection, but rather by sensing the living acts of His concern, to His dynamic

attentiveness to man. They do not speak of His goodness in general, but of His

compassion for the individual man in a particular situation, (Heschel, p. 21). In

other words, Elohim is not known in the abstract, but in the specific situations

into which He has asserted Himself. YHWH is what He has revealed Himself to be

and manifested His Presence in that Name, not what Hellenists theorized Him to

be. If Christians are to understand the Bible, and what it means to be a follower

of Yahshua HaMashiach, then one will have to Hebraically understand it, not

Hellenistically. This will require a philosophical and intellectual paradigm shift on

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part of the believer. It means developing Hebraic thought patterns in order to

think more like YHWH.

In the modern day culture, westerners, per sé, have commercialized everything,

including Christianity. Believers no longer preach the Gospel, heal the sick, cast

out demons and make disciples – they market tapes, booklets and trinkets.

Evangelists are selected because they know how to get the dollars in the door or

attract the crowds or get the numbers up. In the days when Jesus’ Kingdom

movement was known as the "Sect of the Nazarenes" (Act 24:5,14), being a

Christian was about relationship with God and with fellow man, often placing

your life on the line, due to persecution (Mat 22:36-38; Joh1 3:34-35). In the

centuries since, relationships were de-emphasized, creating social clubs. The

spirit of anti-Judaism and later anti-Semitism has done much to destroy the

original personality of the believing community. This explains why it is so difficult

for many to understand either Covenant.

Clearly, there is an ever-present spiritual veil existing on all who claim to be in the

know! Paul, speaking to New Covenant believers said, But the people's minds

were hardened, and even to this day whenever the Old Covenant (Tanach) is

being read, a veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this

veil can be removed only by believing in Christ, 2Cor 3:14. The time has come to

pray that the Spirit of Revelation and Understanding will renew the minds of the

Believers to the Truth of the Word (Rom 12:2; Eph 1:17). Here the reader is

advised to look at the definition of renew as outlined in the definitions of

terminology. The only way to remove this veil is through knowledge by reviewing

available literature on church history and prayer for elucidation and

understanding.

Robinson paraphrased: If you were alive when Yahshua ministered, would you

have stumbled at His teaching (new wine) or would you have had the proper

wineskin to accept the new wine He was pouring out? It’s easy to say yes until

one considers that He did many things that seemed to contradict the Jewish

worldview of the time. He was truly a Stumbling Block by offending religious

people with His new wine; leading to them rejecting His claim of being the

Messiah. At one point Yahshua had to inform the Jews of His intentions and

purpose, that: “I didn’t come to destroy the Torah and the Prophets”. In other

words, He was telling them that He wasn’t some new cult leader trying to draw

people away from worship of the one and only true Elohim (God) of the Torah.

This was the conclusion of (especially) the Jewish leaders. Why did Yahshua

make that statement? He made it because 1) His actions and teachings did not

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fit the Jewish man-made traditions or theology of His day, and 2) He did things

that seemed to contradict their most sacred beliefs and traditions concerning

the Torah.

It has become exceedingly clear, in modernised cultures that there are many

compelling reasons, spiritual, natural, which has become uncontainable and has

contributed to the breakdown of the relationship between Believers and the

Spirit. In Chapter Two, I did an in depth survey on available literature to the

background of the apathy, and why the Body does not have an active, vibrant

relationship with the Holy Spirit. There must be a logical solution to this apathy

and apostasy and the author believe that this research can become a timely

warning and wake-up call to the Church. The Bride must wake up from Her

slumber. Just as it has been written, God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep

(slumber), eyes not to be seeing, and ears not to be hearing, to this very day, Rom

11:8 , Deu 29:4; Isa 29:10. The Amplified defines this spiritual blindness as such:

For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds [that they should not

discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the

Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God,

2Cor 4:4. One may ask why are humanity blinded? It is because they chose to

follow their own hearts, which is rebellion against YHWH; - rebellion is still as the

sin of witchcraft.

In conclusion to this chapter:

• The author believes the Scriptures clearly teach that the New Covenant was

made with the House of Judah and the House of Israel and not with a

separate Gentile entity, as the House of Israel consist of Jews who are

dispersed all over the earth, intermarried with gentiles. The Scriptures do

not even recognize an entity called the Church composed of Gentiles (with

their own system of worship) apart from Messianic believers.

• The author believes the Scriptures clearly teach that the Old Covenant Law

(Torah) is still to be obeyed and was not abolished as is currently taught in

Christianity. The Torah is an Eternal Covenant, conditional (on the part of the

people, not YHWH) with Israel; which is mostly replaced by the Rabbinic

interpretations and Oral Law, which formed many man-made traditions, with

no Scriptural basis. The Holy One established a New (actually Renewed)

Covenant with Israel, which still has as its basis the Torah, Prophets and

Writings (Tanakh). Whereas the Old Covenant was based on the written

letter of the Torah, the Renewed Covenant is based on the Holy Spirit writing

the Torah on the hearts of His believers.

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Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in Hebraic Roots, yet, to

date there has been little agreement on the value of the Torah, or that believers

need to understand the effect of Torah on their spiritual lives. It is mostly people

from a traditional religious background, who oppose anything Jewish - negating

their Saviours Hebraic origin. Yet, they question the delayed return of Yahshua,

as He has promised; spiritually blinded, they do not understand Act 3:19-21 that

states that he must be retained in heaven until the restoration of ALL things. I

am of the opinion that restoring the Hebraic Roots to the Church is of paramount

importance. This will restrain the ever increasing anti-Semitism and persecution

of the Jews, who are the custodians of the Scriptures. This restoration is vitally

important for the reconciliation of the Two Households of YHWH and the only

antidote for the apostasy.

Only the research of all the possible causes for the apostate condition of the

Church can confirm this theory. This is done by reviewing available literature and

to study Church history for clues to the causes for the Apostate position of the

Church. So, therefore, dear reader let us review history and enjoy the ride!

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CHAPTERCHAPTERCHAPTERCHAPTER TWOTWOTWOTWO

BACKGROUND TO THE CAUSES FOR THE NEGATION OF THE RUACH HAKODESH

AND APOSTASY OF THE HEBRAIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH

But the people's minds were hardened (lost the power of understanding), and

even to this day whenever The Old Covenant (Tanakh) is being read, a veil covers

their minds (hearts) so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be

removed only by believing in Christ. 2Cor 3:14

THE SPIRIT-FILLED APOSTOLIC CHURCH VERSUS THE WEAK POWERLESS MODERN

DAY CHURCH: WHAT WENT WRONG?

The author, being in the ministry for many years, has encountered a problem and

phenomenon within the 21st

century Church. When comparing the Presence,

power and relationship with the Ruach HaKodesh within the Antioch (Acts)

Apostolic Church to the contemporary Church, it has become evident that the

contemporary Church does not have, and entirely lacks, that level of power,

Presence and relationship of the Ruach. This lack is apparent in the lives of

individuals’ as well as the Body corporate.

The first Apostolic Church, as described in the book of Acts, had an alive, vibrant

relationship with the Ruach, and He was physically and spiritually present in

everything the disciples did. When you study the workflow and Presence of the

Ruach in the modern day church, a person finds that for many reasons the church

has stagnated – there is hardly any growth in the spreading of the Gospel with

none or barely new souls. Why is there no growth in the Church, no new souls,

none or little flow of the Spirit? The author believes that in the abovementioned

paragraphs in this chapter, and all relational questions, were extensively

researched and answered; and the solution to this situation will be provided in

chapters to follow.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

The founding Root of the Christian faith is Judaism; since then, many carbon

copies of this faith were reproduced into different religions; which strived to

keep the Hebraic Roots out of the Church. Hitherto, by the power of the Ruach

HaKodesh, there is an unseen Supernatural Power entreating authentic believers

to investigate the Root of their faith. Yahshua, or Jesus as He is better known by

His “western or Greek” name, a Jewish Rabbi, the Root from the Royal family of

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King David, an Israelite, is the Root and Corner Stone of the Christian faith. This

research pertains to the Person, Presence, Power and gifts of the Ruach

HaKodesh, Whom Yahshua sent in His place to the earth. In the following

paragraphs, you will find many causes, so to speak, for the absence of the Spirit,

yet will highlight the glaring ignorance of the Westernised Church.

Firstly, I critically examined the Divine Presence, as introduced by Moses (Moshe)

and secondly, the Hebraic Roots of the Christian faith. It is of paramount

importance to know that when YHWH instructed Moshe to write the Torah,

Moses as a Hebrew, wrote the Torah in the Hebrew Language and from a Hebraic

ethos and culture. He would, therefore, have utilised terms and idioms unique to

the Hebrew language, terms and idioms which has lost its meaning in the

translation processes. You need to remember that one always translate into

their own mother tongue in order to portray the correct message. If a mother

tongue speaker is not the translator, the finer nuances and details are

misinterpreted and lost during in the translation process. Here, you can utilise

the example of the Tanakh being translated from Hebrew into Greek, by a Greek

and therefore, adopting and adding a Hellenistic approach to the original Hebrew

version. Do note that the author does not say that every translation is incorrect,

you are referred to specific terms i.e. Torah, which cannot be translated into

another language as it is a lifestyle! Due to the Hellenistic mindset, the word

Torah was translated as Law, conveying a negative connotation and perception to

Gentile believers.

For many years, Christians believed every Word which they were taught as God's

Truth without enquiring as to the source of this disinformation; with the result

that false doctrines were perpetrated especially to the laity. In this modern era,

most Believers are developing enquiring minds and hearing ears and are

searching for the Truth, by themselves. A problem develops when you have or

are born into such a Westernised mindset, and cannot relate to an Eastern, or

Hebraic mindset; a crippling experience, especially when you did not have the

privilege to visit Israel and surrounding countries to experience the Biblical

history with ones own eyes and spirit.

One need to revert to history in an attempt to understand the importance,

relevance and influence that the lack of knowledge has on authentic believers

who do not understand their Hebraic Roots. This predominantly, has a

devastating impact on the worship patterns of the modern day believer.

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BACKGROUND TO TEMPLE SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS: BLOOD SACRIFICE FOR

SIN A JUDAIC CONCEPT

Therefore, presenting a foundational introduction as to the background of the

Temple, Sacrificial services and Priestly duties as performed in the Holy Temple is

called for - as these topics are directly linked to Yahshua and the Ruach

HaKodesh. Rabbi Chaim Richman, Temple Institute, Israel has one passion in life,

and that is to rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. He has done extensive

research on the Holy Temple, its sacrificial systems, the role of the priests and

YHWH’s Eternal Statutes, Covenants, including the Feasts of YHWH. In this

Chapter, I will focus on the Temple, the Korban or sacrificial system, the role of

the priests, the importance of the High Priestly Robe and the Feast of Shavuot –

which pertains to Pentecost and the Ruach HaKodesh. Studying the mentioned

topics can only enhance your understanding as a discerning reader as it is a fore-

shadowing of the Perfect to come and is contextual.

The Sacrificial system

Rabbi Richman, The Holy Temple of Jerusalem (1997) wrote on the history of the

Sacrificial systems the following (paraphrased): Animal sacrifices date back to

ancient times, being a common form of worship from the earliest days and an

expression for man’s religious need’s. YHWH incorporated this need into the

Torah, providing The Sacrificial System for this type of worship. Sacrifices are one

of the most profound expressions of the human desire to come as close as

possible to HaShem. The Bible recorded such sacrifices by Cain, Abel and Noah.

In the desert, it became a Divine Commandment.

The Hebrew word for sacrifice: (korban, lehakriv) is from the root word to come

near, to approach - to become closely involved in a relationship with someone.

The Hebrew concept of Korban, just like Torah, is not translatable into English,

and the word sacrifice is applied for lack of a better English/Greek word. The

word Korban is exclusively utilised by the Bible in the context of man’s

relationship with God – the concept of coming close. Being a Hebraic lifestyle,

Korban has the very same linguistic principle as Torah – it is a service performed

by one who strives for nearness to YHWH. It is a process that cannot be

translated as one word; it entails too many details.

For the Jew, nearness to YHWH is the truest, the highest, the only conception of

what goodness really is; and to study Torah is regarded as the highest form of

Worship man can bring to His creator! Without this aspect to his life, without

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this Godly relationship, which uplifts his life with a sense of connection to the

Divine, he feels himself to be like an animal, devoid of that which makes him into

a human being. Without this he feels similar to the animal on the altar before

him. When a sinner brought a korban (sacrificial animal), the offering showed

him what he deserves, the judgement of Elohim. Throughout the book of

Leviticus, YHWH never referred to Himself as Elohim, whilst the karbanot-offers

were sacrificed; as the Name Elohim denotes the Divine attributes of strict

justice. This could be misinterpreted as YHWH being a bloodthirsty Deity that

demands sacrifices, whereas, YHWH accepts the death throes of an animal as an

substitute for the forfeited life of a human being! The only Name that is linked to

the sacrifices is HaShem (YHWH), the attribute of Divine love and mercy, not of

punishment and death. As the Jewish people do not Use His name YHWH,

regarding it as blasphemy, the Name HaShem is overall the common Name

utilised in Israel – however, not Scripturally correct.

Purposes of the Sacrificial System

Why sacrifices, what is the purpose of shedding Blood? In order for people to

become His chosen, their sins were to be forgiven. Without the remission of sin,

there was no other access to YHWH, Lev 17:11. When YHWH established the first

Covenant at Mount Sinai, He depicted the different blood sacrifices. These

sacrifices were to be continually offered for the sin of the Jewish nation. The

blood was required to keep the Mount Sinai Covenant operational. This

covenant was the foundation of Judaism and the blood sacrificial system was its

preservation. The concept of offering blood to atone for sin was unique to

Judaism, obtaining one’s justification under that system. The Gentile nations in

the desert offered sacrifices to their dead gods in order to gain their favour, for

YHWH, it was preserving His continuing protection and provision. He taught the

Hebrews the principle that the life is in the Blood, but under the Old Judaic

system, the sacrifices had to be repeated daily, as it was a temporary covering.

This system continued until the destruction of the Temple (70AD). Yahshua gave

His Blood to make atonement for all - His life is in His Blood and therefore, has

everlasting value – therefore, animal sacrifices, for redemption, are no longer

required. The sacrificial system could have gone on ad infinitum, but it did not

change the hearts of people, only the living Grace, Yahshua, changes hearts.

Since the destruction of the Temple and the consequential end to the sacrificial

system, the Judaic Rabbis had to find a new means to bring a sacrifice unto

YHWH. The emphasis changed from Temple service and worship to prayer,

study, and performing good deeds; and praying for the rebuilding of the Temple.

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The Priest or Kohen

The first Kohen, appointed by YHWH, was Aaron, the brother of Moshe, born into

the Levitical tribe. He served as the first human High Priest (Kohen HaGadol)

unto YHWH, and considerable detail, as instructed by YHWH, has gone into the

making of His Robe. Elohim made an Everlasting Covenant with Aaron that all his

male descendants will be priests forever – thus even today, a kohen is a

descendant of Aaron. The Eternal One chose the Kohanim to be the spiritual

leaders, (much like modern day pastors) and ordained the Priest to direct

himself, and others in the proper service of YHWH, that he may minister unto Me

in the priests office – a personal ministry unto YHWH.

The priest is Holy, Set-apart for service unto YHWH. The Holy Spirit is the Set-

Apart Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh), Who empowers the priest for ministry. Set out in

the Renewed Covenant, the first priestly duty of each believer ought to be a

priest and King unto YHWH, as they are now called a Kingdom of Priests, Rev 1:6;

5:10. The Ruach also sets the believers apart for ministry unto the sick, and lost.

Many times the unholy lifestyle of the believer prevents the flow of the Holy

Spirit in your life. Both the Apostles, Pieter and Paul insisted on a holy (Torah)

lifestyle for believers, as it is the conduit for the release of Holy Spirit power.

They (priest) must be holy to their God and must not profane the Name of their

God. Because their job is to present the gifts of GOD, the food of their God, they

are to be Holy, Lev 21:6-8. YHWH speaking, Treat him (priest) as holy because I,

YHWH, who make you holy, am Holy, Lev 21:8. Believers in Yahshua need to link

this Scripture to Communion. When one serves at the table of the Lord, no one

may partake unworthily. But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to

demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons,

1Cor 10:20. Both, the one that serves as well as the participant at the table of

the Lord are to be Holy. And what agreement does a temple of God have with

idols? For you are a temple (Mishkan) of the living God, even as God said, I will

dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My

people, 2Cor 6:16; Lev 26:12; Eze 37:27.

Yahshua ratified the concept of His appointed priests being holy unto YHWH, and

stated that Holiness comes from ones Spirit or heart. You are not defiled by what

you eat; you are defiled by what you say and do. But what comes out of your

mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person

unclean. For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and

other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . . Mat 5:11, 18,19.

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Because of this, come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord,

and do not touch the unclean thing, and I will receive you. And I will be a Father

to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty, 2Cor

6:17,18; 2Sam 7:8,14; Isa. 43:6; Isa. 52:11. Separation and holiness go hand in

hand. Whether one is an Israelite or a Gentile, mindset changes towards the

value of the Torah in the life of the believer are of paramount importance, as it

gives clear instructions on the will of YHWH regarding a set-apart lifestyle and

ministry unto Him. Why did God want a Torah lifestyle on the earth? To feel at

home from home; being with His people, to dwell among them and to dwell in

them.

INTRODUCING THE PRESENCE OF THE RUACH HAKODESH (HOLY SPIRIT) IN THE

TANAKH

In researching and reviewing literature on the Internet concerning this topic, you

will find many End-time theories, but it does not fully address the question

whether there really is a falling away or apostasy of the Church, and specifically

from the Person of the Ruach HaKodesh. Neither could one find the reasons for

this phenomenon. Therefore, research had to be conducted on the presence of

the Ruach HaKodesh in the Tanakh and what was His role, if any. Was He

recalled to Heaven after Pentecost, as many claim, refuting the evidence of His

indwelling Presence in the human spirit? Negating Scripture that decree He will

be Present in the Believer for Eternity? In every instance where the Holy Spirit

was manifest in the Tanakh, the very same gifts were and were in operation in

the Renewed Covenant.

Due to the volume of examples found in the Tanakh of His Manifest Presence, I

shall, for the sake of clarity, highlight a few of these instances. For every example

named in the Tanakh, the author will link it (in a following chapter), to the same

gift in the Renewed Covenant. One need to note that the Ruach HaKodesh is

mentioned from Genesis to Revelation – it is my desire to make His Presence very

real to the Church and to create a platform for everlasting restoration between

Him and both Households by identifying and eliminating the root causes to the

separation. Before one can research the root causes for the apostasy from the

Ruach, one has to start at the beginning, the Presence of the Ruach HaKodesh on

the face of the earth.

Ruach HaKodesh Presence in Creation: Introduction

In the beginning, the earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness

was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering,

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brooding) over the face of the waters Gen 1:2. Rashi, Tanakh Commentator,

made this astounding statement in regarding the presence of the Ruach: “The

Throne of Glory was suspended in the air and hovered over the face of the water

with the breath of the mouth of the Holy One, blessed be He and with His word,

like a dove, which hovers over the nest, (acoveter in Old French), to cover, hover

over”. The Throne of Glory was the seat from which the Spirit moved! When one

begins to think where the Spirit is situated, clearly He was with YHWH and

Yahshua, the Messiah, in the beginning [before all time] was the Word, and the

Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally

with God, John 1:1, 2. Immediately, one becomes aware that the Throne of Glory

is suspended in the air, just out of sight. Man is so very, very close to the

manifest Presence of YHWH. The Voice of YHWH always speaks in the presence

of the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit must be present for YHWH to speak or to act

(Rashi, Judaica Bible (www.chabad.org).

He is the wind that carries your voice when a command is issued forth in His

Name; He is not rain, nor a fire, nor an influence. He is the third Person in the

Trinity and has feelings; He may be grieved, quenched or offended. Moreover,

His Spirit is still hovering and waiting to hear His Voice – not only His voice, but

also the voice of every believer who dares to utter the Name of Yahshua in faith!

In addition, the Holy Spirit will comply with the legal command given in the Name

above all names, Eph 4:30; Heb 3:17; 1The 5:19. The Spirit is present from the

beginning in Genesis until the final chapter in Revelations. He is the Set-Apart

Spirit, and is, with all respect, not the messenger boy of the human race!

Rashi so aptly described the Ruach as the breath of YHWH; and thereby laying

the foundation for the Creative Presence of the Holy Spirit on the earth; and

confirms His Presence in the Tanakh. One can clearly understand from the above

that the Ruach was present from the very beginning or dateless past; destroying

the (satanic) chaos that was on the face of the earth, and His life-giving Presence

began to breathe life onto the planet. His Presence is a renewing and restoring

Presence, in His Presence no one is left wanting, where He is there is liberty! It is

impossible to be in His Presence and not chance.

Ruach HaKodesh, the Author and Giver of Life

Then Elohim (Mighty Creator), formed a person (Adam) from the dust of the

ground (Hebrew: Adamah) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that

he became a living being, Gen 2:7. Once again, Rashi made this revelatory

comment: He made him of earthly matter and of heavenly matter: the body of

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earthly matter the soul of heavenly matter. On the first day heaven and earth

were created; on the second day, He created the firmament for the heavenly

beings; on the third day (He commanded) and let the dry land appear, for the

earthly beings. On the fourth day, He created luminaries for the heavenly beings;

on the fifth day, (He commanded) Let the waters swarm for the earthly beings.

On the sixth day, it became necessary to create for both the heavenly and the

earthly beings, for if not, there would be jealousy in the Creation, for these would

exceed those by the creation of one day. Cattle and beasts were also called living

souls, but this one, man, is the most alive of them all, because he was

additionally given intelligence and speech, Rashi — (from Gen. Rabbah 12:8).

You are encouraged to read the booklet The highest form of Worship: Prof W A

Liebenberg; www.hrti.co.za. You will be amazed at the power of your mind when

in sync with your Creator!

It is interesting to note that as He began to create, Elohim spoke everything into

existence, but when he made man, He said, Let us make; implying that He took

His time in making this masterpiece, forming it to perfection. Elohim never

touched anything He created; He spoke it into existence. When He made man,

He became personally involved and touched with His own hands! Moreover,

when it comes to man, it is no longer Elohim; it becomes Elohim YHWH. Elohim

does not represent His Name, only creation, but when the Name YHWH is

introduced; a relationship is indicated. YHWH has no fellowship with animal’s or

trees, but YHWH desires relationship with man whom He created. He reaches

out His hand to man: In Psa 139:5, it states, Your hand is upon me. The Ruach

HaKodesh is the author and giver of life, and He introduces YHWH to man. The

Live-giving Spirit was present in the beginning, and to date is still giving life. He is

called the Spirit of Life in the Renewed Covenant, Rom 8:2,10; 2Cor 3:6.

The Ruach HaKodesh - a Flaming Sword

In Heb 4:12 the Apostle Paul described in detail the Sword of the Spirit. Who then

is wielding this Sword or Word? - The Spirit, covered with His glory and fire. You

will see two (2) characteristics of the Holy Spirit, in that flaming Sword as He

speaks the Word against the enemy:

• He represents the Symbol of Death (Rom 8:13; Act 8:13): death to flesh self

and sin. The Holy Spirit is holding the sword that is cutting the flesh, which

contains the sin. The Sword is God's heart-searching weapon discerning the

very intents of the heart; and it is He Who discovered the change in the

attitude Adam and Eve – sin always creates an attitude change and cuts off

the sinner from His Holy Presence, until repentance; Gen 3:24 And He drove

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the man out. And He lodged the cherubs at the east of the Garden of Eden,

and the flaming sword whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.

His role of protecting the glory of God is clearly demonstrated in this verse.

• The Holy Spirit as Sword, is God's weapon of judgement: For the Word that

God speaks is alive and full of power (making it active, operative, energizing,

and effective); it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the

dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and (the immortal) spirit, and of joints

and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and

analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. And not

a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and

exposed, naked and defenceless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to

do, Heb 4:12,13. Deu 32:41 If I HAVE sharpened My glittering sword, and My

hand lays hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My foes, and I will

repay those who hate Me. The Spirit is equalled to a flaming Sword, whether

it is in the Old or Renewed Covenant.

THOU SHALL MAKE HOLY GARMENTS - FOR GLORY AND FOR WORSHIP

There are more than enough examples in the Tanakh in order to validate the

statement that the Ruach is present in every book of both Covenants. Moreover,

what one discovers is that YHWH works in patterns, i.e. the detailed instructions

for the priestly garments and sacrificial systems. During His discussions with

Moshe, He introduced the heavenly patterns and designs for specific work that

was to be performed for the earthly priestly service.

The reader may ask, what has the clothes of the High Priest to do with the Active

Presence and Person of the Rauch HaKodesh, and how does it contribute to the

apostasy in the church? They, the Ruach and Messiah, are forever entwined, and

the Robe of the High Priest is the cord that links them; not the robe itself, but

what it contains or did contain in the desert.

YHWH issued specific commands when it came to the manufacturing of the High

Priestly Robe, and one may wonder why such intricate details? Who is the

Eternal Great High Priest today, and what is He wearing? Moshe, during his trip

to heaven, was introduced to the patterns of Divine worship, and the

accompanying robes, as utilised by the Heavenly bodies. What did Yahshua, the

Great High Priest, wear in Heaven when Moshe was shown the multi-faceted

pattern for the earthly High Priest’s tunic; and could it be an exact copy of the

very garment that he had to manufacture for the chosen earthly High Priest? Not

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only was Moshe shown the Heavenly High Priests garments, he was also shown

the Tabernacle, Sanctuary and instruments to be fashioned for utilisation in the

Tabernacle, after its completion, Exo 25:7-9; 28:4-39. It is hardly comprehensible

that the Messiah, now, seated in the heavens, as the Great High Priest; is wearing

the Robe appropriate to His Office.

From this perspective, analyse the following Scriptures on the High Priestly Robe:

• And these are the garments which they shall make; a breast-plate, and an

ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a miter (Headdress and sign of

Divine Authority), and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron

thy brother, and his sons, that he may Minister to Me in the priest's office,

Exo 28:4. Do take note of the words, Minister to Me, as well as all these

elaborate details are for one reason only, to worship YHWH. When one

seeks to see the manifest power of God, it is of paramount importance to

know His will, in this case regarding worship of Himself, as the living God. To

worship YHWH is the reason for humankind’s existence.

• And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the

children of Israel: Six of their names on one stone, and the six names of the

rest on the other stone, according to their birth. With the work of an

engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two

stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be

set in settings of gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders

of the ephod for stones of memorial to the children of Israel: and Aaron shall

bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial,

Exo 28:9-12.

• And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breast-plate of

judgment upon his heart, when he entereth into the holy place, for a

memorial before the LORD continually, Exo 28:29. Aaron being the Shadow;

and what did the Great High Priest, Yahshua the Perfect, do? Did He not take

the sins and judgement of all upon Himself? It is a continuous memorial

before YHWH every time YHWH sees the wounds of Yahshua, and the

completed work done on the cross.

• And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among (in) them.

According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the

pattern of all its instruments, even so shall ye make it. Do take note of the

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word pattern, YHWH works on faith, principles and patterns, Exo 25:8, 9.

That I may dwell among them temporarily satisfied YHWH. His long-term

plan was to indwell each of us (them), which He achieved through Yahshua.

YHWH revealed a deep mystery to Moshe – His Heavenly Sanctuary. Moshe

saw exactly what it looked like, therefore, just like the precious stones on the

High Priestly Robe; Moses simultaneously saw the multi-faceted Thrones of

YHWH. Moses identified the different Thrones: the Throne of Grace, the

Throne of Fire, the Throne of Healing the side from whence the Healing

waters flow to the nations, the Throne of Glory (1Sam 2:8), the Great White

Throne, the Throne of Righteousness (Psa 89:14), Jerusalem, the Throne of

YHWH (Jer 3:17), and the Throne of His Kingdom. This is the realm in which

not only Yahshua life, but also YHWH, The Eternal One and from whence the

Holy Ruach came! To Him belong all the Glory and the honour.

• And thou shall put IN the breast-plate of judgment the Urim and the

Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before

the LORD: and Aaron (Shadow) shall bear the judgment of the children of

Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually, Exo 28:30. Here one will

look at the Urim and Thummim as the Presence of YHWH in action, through

His Holy Spirit. You shall place the Urim and the Thummim into the

breastplate. (breast – pocket; Chosen in Hebrew, is used for the square

breast-plate of the high priest, in which were set twelve precious stones,

each being engraved with the name of one of the sons of Jacob, in the order

of their birth). The Chosen of judgement so that they will be over Aaron's

heart when he comes before YHWH, and Aaron will carry the judgment of

the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord at all times, or

perpetually like the Heavenly Great High Priest? Rashi on the judgment of the

children of Israel; According to the Aggadic Midrash (Lev. Rabbah 10:6) the

Choshen atoned for the perverted justice - it was called judgment because of

forgiveness for the (sins of) judgment. Today, I believe, this breast-plate will

be called the breastplate of Righteousness.

Messiah hidden in the Bosom of the Father

I would now like to regress to words that were repeatedly utilised: And thou shall

put IN the breast-plate of judgement The Urim and the Thummim. The shadow,

the Chief Corner Stone, is found in Genesis; the ‘Christ Stone’ was quietly and

supernaturally introduced in Gen 49:24; and it seems that Bible Scholars did not

link it to the Messiah, or that it is the Urim and Thummim near the heart of the

earthly High Priest. When the Perfect came from the heart or bosom of the Father

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the shadow was fulfilled. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten

Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, that One declares Him, Joh 1:18. Messiah

came from IN the Heart or Bosom of the Father; and There are two conclusions

that one can make:

• One, is that the Messiah is the Urim and Thummim;

• Two, that the Ruach HaKodesh supernaturally indwelt the Urim and

Thummim and is, therefore, the Divine Stone, the Messiah, the Rock of

Salvation and Light of the World. The Rauch comes from the heart of the

Father, just as He revealed via the Urim and Thummim the will of YHWH to

the Israelites, He will reveal the will of YHWH to His Children.

Now believers are illuminating Light through the Urim and Thummim or Ruach -

God's Light Who comes to fullness, to perfection. All have a corporate expression

of the Light and the Glory of God in fullness of manifestation (Heb 1:3 Amp). The

believers have the full revelation of the Word, the heart and mind of YHWH.

Believers who have come into abiding union with Christ; are hidden away in the

breastplate of judgement that is on His Heavenly Robe – and therefore, is fully

hidden in the Bosom of the Father – they have His ear.

THE DIVINE STONE AND THE MANIFEST PRESENCE: URIM AND THUMMIM

Yet, yet, there is a manifest Presence of the Holy Spirit that, to the knowledge of

the author has not yet been linked to His active Presence by modern day or

Western believers. Notwithstanding, this magnificent manner in which He

manifested His Presence, as often as needed through the Divine Stone, has

escaped the attention of most Bible scholars to the greatest loss of the Body

Corporate. The author is revealing this information with trepidation and fear; as

profound as this knowledge is, there is the possibility that the author could be

wrong – however, not the Word, and will therefore, allow the Word to interpret

the Word.

Therefore, trusting in the Ruach, Who revealed this, His very active Presence will

be analysed in the Tanakh interchangeably utilising the term: Inquiring of the

Lord and the Urim and Thummim. A term that is often used in the Torah and

Kings; and always there was a very specific answer; no doubting, no wondering,

just a direct answer to a specific question from the Divine Stone. This was

disconcerting for the author as the Modern day Western Church really suffers to

hear the Voice or Batkol of YHWH clearly; in contrast with the Original Apostolic

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Church (supposedly modern and set free from the Law), who had an active

relationship with Him.

As long as the believers have a relationship with the living God, there will be a

continuous Revelation of Truth. The author would like to substantiate this

statement from the Hebraic writings, as the Hebrew nation was the first to

audibly hear the Voice. The following can be described as progressive revelation

knowledge: When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when

He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the

number of the children of Israel, Deu 32:8. One can see that the number of the

children of Israel, who came to Egypt, was 70, Exo 1:1-5. Therefore, the 70 voices,

as interpreted by R. Johanan, represented all the nations of the world, based

upon given scriptures. ON that day, the Israelis saw that God's voice split up into

the languages of all the people on the earth to be a witness to them. In the book

The Midrash Says, by Rabbi Moshe Weissman, the author wrote: In the occasion

of Matan Torah [the giving of the Torah], the Bnai Yisrael [children of Israel] not

only heard Hashem's [the Lord's] Voice but actually saw the sound waves as they

emerged from Hashem's [the Lord's] mouth. They visualized them as a fiery

substance. Each commandment that left Hashem's [the Lord's] mouth travelled

around the entire Camp and then to each Jew individually, asking him, Do you

accept upon yourself this Commandment with all the halochot [Jewish law]

pertaining to it? Every Jew answered "Yes" after each commandment. Finally, the

fiery substance which they saw engraved itself on the luchot [tablets].

One can only compare this with the day of Pentecost: The festival of Shavu`ot

arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place. Suddenly there came

a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house

where they were sitting. Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which

separated and came to rest on each one of them. They were all filled with the

Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled

them to speak, Act 2:1-4, CJB. Tongues, being a sign of the manifest Presence,

the Believer saying yes to the request to obey His Commands, and followed by

the Ruach writing the Commands on the tablets of one’s heart!

Origin and meaning of the Divine Stone: Urim and Thummim

This Urim and Thummim, where does it come from? Are the Urim and Thummim

Divinely introduced or is it man-made? What then is the function of this Rock

and does it have any relevance on the Ruach HaKodesh and 21st

Century Church?

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John A. Tvedtnes commented on a Rabbinical endorsed book, Book of Abraham,

which has rendered some interesting information pertaining to the Urim and

Thummim. The Book of Abraham informs one that Abraham had the Urim and

Thummim, through which he saw the stars. And the Lord said unto me, by the

Urim and Thummim, that Kolob (star nearest to YHWH’s throne) was after the

manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof

(Abraham 3:1-4). The Bible associates the Urim and Thummim with the Israelite

high priest, but it never suggests that Abraham possessed this instrument of

divine revelation. However, it is significant, that some early non-biblical Jewish

writings concur with the Book of Abraham on this issue. John Tvedtnes,

http://mi.byu.edu FARMS Update: Abraham and the Urim and Thummim. Here

the author wishes to differ from Mr Tvedtnes, as Gen 49:24 indicates that

Abraham was in possession of a stone, whilst prophesying the future of Joseph.

Mr John A. Tvedtnes, is a senior resident scholar with the Neal Maxwell Institute

for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

Mr Tvedtness continues: Abraham came, and He sought a power to give him. He

gave him this precious stone, but he did not want it (Bahir 190). From Abraham

1:2, 4 we learn that the power that Abraham sought was the priesthood. It seems

that the two stones he received were associated with that power. Bahir 192

continues: It is written that Abraham kept My Commandments, My Decrees, and

My Torahs. He said, since I do not want [the precious stone], I will keep all the

commandments that are included in it. What is the meaning of 'My Torahs'? This

teaches us that he knew and kept even the decisions (Horah) and discussions that

are taught on high. Abraham did indeed learn of discussions from on high.

Abraham 3 records his vision of the heavens and of pre-earth life, revealed via

the Urim and Thummim. Abraham 4-5 records his vision of the creation of the

earth, including the discussions and decisions of the Gods.

The Talmud supports the idea that Abraham possessed a miraculous stone.

Eliezer R, the Modiite, suggested that Abraham possessed a power of reading the

stars for which he was much sought after by the potentates of East and West. R.

Simeon B. Yohai said: Abraham had a precious stone hung round his neck, which

brought immediate healing to any sick person who looked on it, and when

Abraham our father departed from this world, the Holy One, blessed be He,

suspended it from the orb of the sun (TB Baba Bathra 16b). Connecting the Urim

and Thummim to the Rock of salvation, He became Yahshua, the Healer of

mankind.

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Although the stone in question is said to have been used for healing purposes, it

is interesting that it immediately follows a statement about Abraham's

astronomical capabilities, which, according to Abraham 3:1, he acquired in part

through the stones known as the Urim and Thummim. Regarding this statement

your will note that the translator of the Talmud passage indicated a variant

rendering: 'He possessed an astrological instrument’. Jewish tradition holds that

Abraham possessed glowing gems and pearls, reminding the Westerner that

ancient texts also describe the Urim and Thummim as glowing stones.

• Rabbi Chaim Richman www.templeinstitute.org (2007) certifies that The

Stone is the Name of God. The Urim and Thummim were the famed, oracle-

like aspect of the breastplate by which a Heavenly answer was received for

important questions. According to most authoritative opinions, the

expression Urim and Thummim actually refer not to the breastplate itself,

but to the mystical Divine name of God, which was written on a piece of

parchment and inserted into a flap of the garment. The presence of the

Name facilitated the reception of Divine guidance through the shining of

specific letters on the stones. What are the implications of this fact, the

knowledge that it is the Name of God itself, which brought about the

illumination of the Urim and Thummim? God is the Creator of all existence;

His power is unlimited. He has no form whatsoever; neither has He beginning

or end. He is the Supreme Being. He is perfect and absolute unity.

The true character and virtue of these stones or gems is revealed in the names by

which they are called, and in what they performed in the presence of YHWH. One

has to consider the meaning or their names for they are Hebrew words or names,

left un-translated in most English versions:

• URIM: Lights, from a word that means a flame, something luminous,

glorious, shining;

• THUMMIM: Perfections, from a word meaning to complete, accomplish,

make an end, come to the full, be made perfect. Both words are in the

plural; and there are two (2) objects; with number two representing

corporate relationships in the body of Christ: the part and the counterpart,

the House of Judah or the House of Israel, etc.

Contradicting the Two stone Theory

Dallas James, who claims to be in possession of the original Rock, contradicts the

Rabbinic theory of two stones assures people of the following: The very first

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identifying feature is that this is one stone, not two or twelve, and the second

factor is that on this stone is a (metal) engraving. And the third factor is having

this engraved by the Lord of hosts Himself! These last points tie in perfectly with

the omission of the Urim and Thummim being fabricated by the Israelites. This

combination of metal and stone also accounts for the plurality factor of this one

priestly oracle. It has been misleading in the King James Version to translate

plummet in Zec 4:10, instead of using the word stone as used in Zec 3:9. Both are

the exact same original Hebrew word (Strongs #068) and both are speaking of

the Urim and Thummim! Dallas James, www.bibleprophet.com (2002). What

does the Word Have to say on the topic?

Stone Constructed Without Human Intervention

You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on

its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces, Dan 2:34,45. Could these be

the Urim and Thummim that have been hidden for many thousand of years shall

be revealed again in the end-time era as Daniel prophesied? This is a most

interesting verse as there is a reference to a stone cut without hands. This implies

that it was Divinely made (Zec 3:9), and these two verses point back to the time

of its origin, which was not listed in the priestly or tabernacle instructions of all

the items to be made. This Christ - Stone is the one that becomes the Chief

Corner Stone. The Urim and Thummim as one can see is the legitimate physical

representation of this great spiritual reality. When these stones are named the

Christ-stone (Dallas), and is on the earth, it is representing the Holy Spirit. This

stone subsequently makes its journey through time from its mysterious

appearance and is given first to Moshe and after him to Aaron, who placed it on

his heart in the breastplate of the High Priestly garments. The Stone cut without

hands also refers to the return of the Messiah in the last days, to judge the

nations before establishing His Messianic Rule on the earth. This statement not

only links the Urim and Thummim with the Prophecies of Daniel, but also with

the Prophet Hosea – and its soon re-appearance.

A PRIEST CAN BE DISQUALIFIED FROM CONSULTING YHWH THROUGH THE URIM

AND THUMMIM

From the time of Aaron to the time of the prophet Samuel, the Urim and

Thummim were passed down the generations of Priests to the time of the High

Priest Eli. It is very important to note what happened at this juncture in history;

The Urim and Thummim only worked out its miracle if it was in the hands of

those authorized by Elohim to have it. The priestly family of Eli, through sin, was

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disqualified from officially serving in the Priesthood. From this time until the

High Priest Zadok, temporary custodianship of the Urim and Thummim and the

authority to utilize it was transferred to the prophets and King David himself.

Unauthorised by the protocol as stated in the Torah, king Saul consulted the Urim

and Thummim for Divine direction, but because of rebellion in his heart, Elohim

refused to help him. Elohim’s Urim or the Perfect Light of the Ruach HaKodesh is

for those who will walk in His Commandments: YHWH, YHWH answered him not,

neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets, 1Sam 28:6.

Unfaithful pastors or priests may not minister unto Him. And the men of the tribe

of Levi who abandoned me when Israel strayed away from me to worship idols

must bear the consequences of their unfaithfulness. But they encouraged my

people to worship other gods, causing Israel to fall into deep sin. So I have raised

my hand and taken an oath that they must bear the consequences for their sins,

says the Sovereign LORD. They may not approach me to minister as priests. They

may not touch any of my holy things or the holy offerings, for they must bear the

shame of all the sins they have committed, Eze 44:10-13. One seriously needs to

take note of this stipulation as it greatly impacts on one’s ministry.

Predominant Role of the Ruach HaKodesh during the Theocratic Rule in the

desert; Communicating by means of the Urim and Thummim with the King and

Priest

In order to connect the Urim Thummim, and its probable value to the modern

day believer, one needs to establish if it/He has any relevance to the Ruach. Rev

1:6 and 5:10 declares that Yahshua has made us a kingdom of priests and kings

unto our God (AENT). These Scriptures immediately establishes relevancy and

therefore, warrants investigation as a possible cause for the apostasy. One may

say the Urim and Thummim were for Biblical times; believers now have the

Ruach. The Scriptures proved that the Ruach and Urim are the same, and that

the Urim represents Yahshua as the Eternal Rock – Who functions on the earth

through the Ruach HaKodesh.

In the Sinai desert, the Hebrews had the Torah as recorded by Moshe. They had

the Eternal Statutes and Ordinances as audibly spoken by YHWH, and the Urim

and Thummim, which could confirm any other word, when needed. The

Israelites had Divine instructions to move into the Promised Land. They were to

face formidable enemies; and unforeseen circumstances would arise where they

would need a very explicit word from the Holy One of Israel. It would not be

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contrary to what was written in the Torah. Consulting YHWH through the Urim

and Thummim would pin-point and unfold detailed instructions which they

would need as they walked in the unexplored routes as directed by YHWH. And

after they entered the land, they would need specific instructions from YHWH as

to the manner of their warfare, and how they were to conquer their enemies and

possess the land.

Moshe, through consulting YHWH with the Urim and Thummim, clearly heard His

revealed will and at the end of his life, prayed that the Levites will be kept

blameless in order to hear His will. It is interesting to note that YHWH only spoke

through those who are faithful, ordained and purified to consult Him. It is a

practical lesson for believers who rush into prayer without being washed with the

Blood of Yahshua – and then they do not understand why their corrupted prayers

are not answered. About the tribe of Levi he said: You, LORD, reveal your will by

the Urim and Thummim through your faithful servants, the Levites; You put them

to the test at Massah, and proved them true at the waters of Meribah, Deu 33:8.

The Word as spoken forth through the Urim and Thummim was proven accurate

after every consultation. The Israelites, as part of the Heavenly protocol, had to

be ritually clean to hear from YHWH, so modern day believers have to be

spiritually guiltless; as YHWH Elohim gives His Set - Apart Spirit to those who obey

Him, Act 5:42. Those who are spiritually blameless (clean) will also hear the Word

and can test its truthfulness the very same way; there will be no confusion as to

what was said by ABBA during the consultation or prayer.

Moshe instructed Joshua that He must meditate in the Torah day and night for

his success (Jos 1:8). Nevertheless, he would need some direct counsel from

YHWH along the way; and that Joshua was to depend on Eleazar the priest, who

will learn my will by using the Urim and Thummim. In this way Eleazar will direct

Joshua and the whole community of Israel in all their affairs, Num 27:21. Put the

Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece, so that Aaron will carry them when he

comes into my holy presence. At such times, he must always wear this

breastpiece, so that he can determine My Will for the people of Israel, Exo 28:30.

YHWH would be faithful to give him clear and infallible direction (through the

Ruach HaKodesh), both as he went forth in battle, and as he came home in

victory. It was not a game of chance; the words clearly proceeded from the

mouth of YHWH.

Due to lack of Hebraic Root knowledge, many believers do not seem to

understand this and develops the attitude that they have the Bible to equip them

for a life of fruitfulness and godliness. Yet, many times when one needs a very

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incontrovertible word for a decision, or during some grievous area of conflict;

YHWH opened other avenues open to the Truth seeker:

• The Bible is but one of the methods to consult the living God.

• He has designed man to worship Him – then make contact through prayer as

man is a sprit, just as his Elohim – always in the Name of Yahshua.

• And in the current day and times the believer lives in, through the inward

revelation or illumination of the Ruach HaKodesh, the seeker will receive

clear direction and guidance,

• Donning the Tallit, holding on to the Truth of His Eternal commands and

Statutes is another way to meet alone with YHWH. All of the above points to

the relationship with ABBA.

Consultation with Urim and Thummim Era Suspended – Restoration Prophesied

for Latter Days (Act 3:19-21)

Since King David’s passing away, the usage of the Urim and Thummim were

suspended, and began to disappear from Israeli history, but not entirely. Ezra

and Nehemiah, at the end of the Babylonian exile, mentioned it again – and with

the purpose to consult YHWH for a very specific reason; to be addressed.

As the stones were types and shadows of reality when ministering unto God,

why then did He permit them to disappear and suspend its usage? Could it be

that He was setting things in motion for the Perfect to come and prepare the way

for (once again) unhindered access to Him? Even so, in Old Covenant, YHWH

began to put Urim and Thummim (Light and Revelation) in the hearts of His

chosen vessels, the prophets, and in the Renewed Covenant, in the hearts of

Spirit-filled Believers. The author firmly believes the usage of the Urim and

Thummim will be restored in the latter days – for usage by the Household of

Judah. For them this method of consulting YHWH was suspended until the

Restoration of all things (Act 3:19-21), but for every Spirit-filled believer He has

made Living provision to consult Him and to be utilised by Him

Welcome to Master Builder Who works through Living Stones

Every Spirit-filled believer has the ability in them to speak forth the Oracles of

YHWH when they submit to the hands of the Master builder and Chief Corner

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Stone. Peter said: Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by people as

worthless but chosen by God as valuable. Come as living stones, and let

yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy

priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. For

the scripture says, I chose a valuable stone, which I am placing as the cornerstone

in Zion; and whoever believes in him will never be disappointed. This stone is of

great value for you that believe; but for those who do not believe: The stone

which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of

all. And another scripture says, this is the stone that will make people stumble,

the Rock that will make them fall. They stumbled because they did not believe in

the word; such was God's will for them, 1Pet 2:4-8. Whilst being built up as Living

Stones, the believer has the Oracles (Urim and Thummim) of YHWH in them; and

they need to surrender to the Hands of the Master Builder in order to fashion

them to His taste and for His Glory!

Conclusion: The Urim and Thummim

In the Sinai desert, the living God through the Ruach, Urim and Thummim,

cultivated, the Hebrew nation into an ethos of instant unconditional obedience

to the spoken Word of YHWH. Today the 21st

Century believer wants to bargain

with this All-Powerful Living God.

One can therefore, not conclude that the Urim and Thummim are just a stone. It

was one of the most magnificent methods, which YHWH chose to manifest His

Presence, His will and plans. In the near future, the re-implementation of this

method of consultation will again be utilised; when the tribes of Israel shall be

identified by means of the Urim and Thummim and Ruach HaKodesh. The many

days are over and soon the lost Urim and Thummim will be uncovered from its

cache to function once again in its YHWH given role; its Light of Perfection will

illuminate more than just the Jewish nation, by representing the Holy Spirit, He

will enlighten the Believers to embrace their Hebraic legacy.

The author believes that these Stones will play an enormous role in Israel

(specifically for the Jewish nation and the tribes per sé) prior to the fulfilment of

all end-time Revelation and prophecies. For the sons of Israel shall remain many

days with no king and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod

or teraphim (sacred stone; Urim and Thummim). The Jews will need the Teraphim

(Urim and Thummim) speaking forth the oracles of YHWH, which discloses to

them the hidden things of YHWH. Afterward (latter days) the sons of Israel shall

return and seek YHWH their Elohim and David their king. And they shall fear

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YHWH and His goodness in the ends of the days, David, their King, being Yahshua

HaMashiach, Hos 3:4,5.

THE RUACH HAKODESH REVEALS THE LIGHT, THE INDWELLING PRESENCE OF

YHWH

During the Theocratic Rule Dispensation in the desert, YHWH, through His Spirit,

was always present, but in a distance, in the cloud. He spoke to Moses and the

Israelites from within this cloud. And the LORD went before them by day in a

pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them

LIGHT; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day,

nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. Exo 13:21,22. And the

Angel of God Who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them;

and the pillar of the cloud went from before them and stood behind them, Coming

between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. It was a cloud and darkness to

the Egyptians, but it gave LIGHT by night to the Israelites; and the one host did

not come near the other all night, Exo 14:19,20.

For the Israelites, He was the Light, for the Egyptians, He was darkness and

Judgement for they could not observe Him. One can therefore, safely conclude

from this picture that when one is in sin, he sees the dark side of the cloud, but

when one is in the perfect will of YHWH, the Cloud or Spirit will give light, as He is

the Spirit of Light. In Urim and Thummim the believers have Light; His Light that

comes to fullness, to perfection. This is the Judgement that the light has come

into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works

were evil, Joh 3:19. Believers have the full revelation of the Word, the heart and

mind of YHWH, those who have come into abiding union with Messiah; they are

hidden away in the Breastplate of Judgment, which contains the Urim and

Thummim. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God, Col 3:3.

The High Priest carried the Urim and Thummim, representing the Holy Spirit,

close to His Heart. Today the Believer is the Temple or Mishkan of the Holy Spirit

and has Him in their bellies or Spirit. In the Renewed Covenant He is also the

Light; But when anything is exposed (by the Spirit of Truth) and reproved by the

light, it is made visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is

light, For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in

every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.

Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall

shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light, Eph 5:9, 14.

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The Person of the Ruach is the Gift from YHWH, Whom He sent to man, after the

ascension of Yahshua; every desirable and beneficial Gift comes out of heaven.

The gifts are rivers of Light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is

nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle, Jam 1:17. When He

indwells man, The Spirit gives light to man’s soul; the Spirit is The Light in man.

The spirit of a man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately

from God) is the lamp of the LORD, Searching all the inner depths of his heart, Pro

20:27 But if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

the One having raised the Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies

live through the indwelling of His Spirit in you. Rom 8:9, 11; Joh 7:38, 39; Joh

14:17.

This indwelling and perceptibly manifested Presence of the Ruach was

observable even by a cruel pagan king; King Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged the

Light of the Spirit in Daniel. There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the Spirit of

the Set-Apart Elohim; and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and

wisdom, like the wisdom of YHWH was found in him; and the king

Nebuchadnezzar thy father, even the king thy father, made him master of the

scribes, magicians, Chaldeans, and astrologers. And I have heard of thee, that the

excellent Spirit of YHWH is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent

wisdom is found in thee, Dan 5:11-14.

When one studies the life of Prophet Daniel, who in exile, lived according to the

Torah, for the Tanakh was not yet written! A Holy Spirit filled man who lived in

the Torah and who had an excellent Spirit in him! The author would like to

submit a challenge to the Believers of the modern day Church and Torah

observers: How does your spirit contrast with Daniel’s spirit when comparing life

and circumstances, how does the believer measure up? For once you were

darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (lead the

lives of those native-born to the Light), Eph 5:8. The Ruach is the Helper, and the

Spirit of truth, assisting one to develop an excellent Spirit. That helper is the Spirit

of Truth. The world cannot accept him, because it doesn't see or know him. You

know him, because he lives with you and will be in you, Joh 14:17; Joh 15:26, Joh

16:13; 1Joh 2:27. Daniel obtained such a Spirit through relationship, prayer and

fasting.

This Spirit of Light is not at a distance (relationship) as in the Old Covenant, He is

in the now, the very Present God, (YHWH Shammah), living in the believer, who

has become His Tabernacle or Mishkan. The believer no longer looks above for a

cloud – He is within. The proof of the Spirit’s indwelling presence is the Word

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that says, out of your inner belly (Spirit) shall flow rivers of living water. Living

water pouring out from the heart; and speaking in tongues is an outward

manifestation of an inward happening – His very real Presence, YHWH Shammah.

The mystery of the Indwelling Presence of the Ruach HaKodesh in every created

Being in the Heavens, and every Believer on the face of the earth

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the

beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus

Christ: To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly places

might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, Eph 3:10. In

analysing this Scripture, one uncovers the following mysteries as revealed to the

Church:

• The Church or Body will demonstrate the manifold Wisdom of YHWH.

• The Eternal One through His Ruach HaKodesh is present IN all heavenly

creatures: Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, in the direction the

spirit wanted to go. The wheels were lifted up next to them, because the

spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When [the living creatures]

moved, [the wheels] moved; when the former stood still, the latter stood still;

and when the former were lifted off the ground, the wheels were lifted up

next to them; because the SPIRIT of the living creatures was in the wheels,

Eze 1:20, 21; Eze 10; Dan 7, Psa 103; Rev 4; Zec 6.

• The Eternal One through His Ruach HaKodesh is forever living in Messiah

Yahshua. Not only is the Ruach eternally resident or indwelling Spirit, He

came upon and then is still residing in the Messiah, and the Messiah released

Him to indwell each believer. It's true that I am immersing you in water so

that you might turn from sin to God; but the ONE coming after me is more

powerful than I - I'm not worthy even to carry his sandals — He will immerse

you in the Ruach HaKodesh and in fire, Mat 3:11 (CJB).

• He is forever present, through His Ruach HaKodesh, inside His Disciples, But

you do not live as your human nature tells you to; Instead, you live as the

Spirit tells you - in fact, God's Spirit Lives in you. Whoever does not have the

Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus

from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give

life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you. And if the Spirit

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of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who

raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal

(perishable) bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you, Rom 8:9-11.

• The Believer is the sanctuary of YHWH, the Indwelling Spirit: Do you not

discern and understand that you (the whole church) is God's temple (His

sanctuary), and that God's Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you (to be at

home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]? If anyone does

hurt to God's sanctuary (or dwelling Place) or corrupts it [with false

doctrines] or destroys it, God will do hurt to him and bring him to the

corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to

Him) and that [temple] you [the believing church and its individual believers]

are, 1Cor 3:16,17. The human body, as physical Temple, has become His

Mishkan.

• For you are a temple of the living God, even as God said, I will dwell in them

and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

2Cor 6:16; Lev 26:12; Eze 37:27.

• I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Comforter

(Counsellor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that

He may remain with you forever. The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot

receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and

recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you

[constantly] and will be in you. Joh 14:16,17.

Jew and Gentile alike have dishonoured the conditions and criteria for this

empowering Indwelling Presence. The Holy Spirit has been grieved and offended,

and His irreproachable gifts have been incorrectly administrated, often for selfish

gain – and are one of the main reasons for the apostasy in the Church.

BEGINNING IN THE DESERT: INQUIRING OF YHWH AND THE PREDOMINANT ROLE

OF THE RUACH HAKODESH

Can one inquire of Him now, in the same manner as in Biblical days and what are

the criteria? As said, YHWH works through faith in Him, principles and patterns.

This is thoroughly demonstrated when YHWH told Moses the nation is to be

clean before entering into His Holy Presence. One may submit a counter

argument and say it is Law, and I concede that it is Law, yet, when the Hebrews

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obeyed the prescripts, look at the life changing encounter they had with the

Living God. And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These

are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel, Exo 19:6. This Word

is not revoked; the Apostle Peter spoke to the Jewish believers in exile all over

the world, the sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,

and Bithynia, 1Pet 1:1. And, you but are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of

his who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light, 1Pet 2:9. By faith

every believer becomes part of the Holy Nation – Set Apart for Him.

YHWH called Peter primarily for the Jewish nation, and he spoke to them and for

them. The Gentiles took this Word as well and began to think it is applicable to

them only, in line with Replacement theories; forgetting that Paul said the Gospel

is for the Jew first and then the Greek, Rom 1:16. But to those that are

contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there

shall be wrath and indignation, tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that

works evil, both of Jew First, and of Greek; but glory and honour and peace to

every one that works good, both to Jew First and to Greek: for there is no

acceptance of persons with God, Rom 2:-11,8. It is for those who come in faith,

the Jew first then the Greek or Gentile. YHWH did not revoke this Word.

Biblical cleansing or purifying: Cleanliness before Holiness

Thus whether one is from the Old or the Renewed, they are a Holy Nation and

chosen by YHWH, and His pattern is perpetual ritual cleanliness for the Jew first

and then the Greek. One could possibly spiritualise these Scriptures and say the

cleansing is now for the spirit of man, and the Word washes one, but what does

the Word say? As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the

Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf, in order to set it

apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh (Or in the Word

and water baptism), so to speak in order to present the Messianic Community to

himself as a bride to be proud of, without a spot, wrinkle or any such thing, but

holy and without defect, Eph 5:25-27, CJB. Thus, whether ritually of spiritually

clean, cleanliness is God ordained.

Is the Messianic (Apostolic) community clean, washed, and holy, without defect

and sin? Is the Messiah proud of this community with all its in-fighting and

jealousy, strive and anti-Semitism? No, washing both Households with the

precious Blood of the Lamb is required, or they may never see or experience the

manifest Presence that the obedient Hebrews experienced in the desert. YHWH

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said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let

them wash their garments, and be ready against the third day; for on the third

day YHWH will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. Moses

went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they

washed their clothes. He said to the people, Be ready by the third day. Don't have

sexual relations with a woman. It happened on the third day, when it was

morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the

mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who

were in the camp trembled. Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God;

and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. Mount Sinai, all of it, smoked,

because YHWH descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a

furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly, Exo 19.

Since then (the Shadow), to date (The Perfect), the pattern for cleanliness was

established and followed, in preparation for enquiring of the Lord where and

when needed,

• Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts

sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water,

Heb 10:22;

• And some of you were these things, but you were washed, but you were

sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the

Spirit of our God, 1Cor 6:11;

• That He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the

Word, Eph 5:26. Washing still plays a major role in pre-worship.

METHOD OF INQUIRING FROM YHWH: BIBLICAL DAYS

The procedure of entreating (prayer) for Divine aid with the Urim and Thummim

was performed with the following technique as Rabbi Richman, Temple Institute

explains:

• When a question arose; and the implications were so consequential that the

entire congregation of Israel would be effected - for example, the question

of whether or not to go out to war - the King of Israel (or the commanding

officer of the army) would ask his question before the High Priest.

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• The High Priest then stands facing the Ark of the Testimony, and the enquirer

stands behind him, facing the priest's back. The questioner does not speak

out loud. Neither does he merely think the question in his heart; he poses

his query quietly, to himself - like someone who prays silently before his

Creator. For example, he will ask Shall I go out to battle, or shall I not go out?

The Spirit of Divine Inspiration immediately enveloped the High Priest as he

gazes at the breastplate, and by meditating upon the Holy Names of YHWH,

the Priest could receive the answer through a prophetic vision, the letters on

the stones of the breastplate, which would shine forth in his eyes in a special

manner, spelling out the answer to the High Priest. The priest then informs

the enquirer of the answer or outcome.

• Another Midrashic passage indicates that when the tribes of Israel found

favour in the eyes of YHWH, each respective stone shone brilliantly.

However, when particular members of any one tribe were involved in a

transgression, that tribe's stone would appear tarnished and dimmed. The

High Priest would see these phenomena and understand its cause. He would

then cast lots within the rank of this tribe, until the guilty person was

revealed and judged (Midrash HaGadol). The entire matter is one of those

mysteries which were handed down to Moses at Mount Sinai by YHWH

Himself, and its secret was transmitted orally down through the generations.

• An ordinary person or someone not representing the entire community

would not enquire of the Urim and Thummim.

There are more than 230 instances of this type of prayer submitted to YHWH,

beginning with Abraham, who was the Shadow of Faith, the Patriarchs, Apostles,

disciples and ordinary people – and completed with the Perfect.

Method of inquiring from YHWH: Renewed Covenant

When studying the Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith, it becomes apparent that

in the Judaic religion, as established by YHWH, there were certain criteria or

protocol when one comes into His Presence as introduced in the above. The

reader may now say, yes, but it was in Old Testament times; the believer now has

direct access to Him, which is correct. Therefore, brethren, since we have full

freedom and confidence to enter into the (Holy of) Holies (by the power and

virtue) in the blood of Jesus. Heb 10:19. Consider then His Blood and the price

paid, to pave the way for Believers into the Holy of Holies! In the Tanakh, the

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protocol was that one is to wash oneself and ones clothes, in the Renewed

Covenant, washing by the Word and by the Blood is the Godly requirement and

protocol. He said I AM YHWH- I change not – His conditions stay the same.

One may rightly ask, Enquiring of the Lord; is it not a very old outdated concept

that has been abolished along with the Law? The foundation or Shadow is in the

Tanakh, the Perfect is in the Renewed. The demonstration of the Shadow was in

the desert experience, and needs to be analysed and evaluated its possible

relevance to the 21st

Century Hebraic (Apostolic) Church. This concept of

enquiring of the Lord, when translated correctly into 21st

century terminology,

answers the question:

• Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen,

who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us,

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is,

because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God,

Rom 8:27, Jer 29:12,13; Joh 14:13; 1Joh 3:21,22, 1Joh 5:14,15. Enquiring of

the Lord is then equated to prayer and intercession, yet one need to pray

with wisdom; and

• If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and

without reproach, and it will be given to him. Jam 1:5, 6. The modern day

believer’s primary means of inquiring from YHWH today is through the Spirit,

and in prayer asking; knowing that the Great High Priest, Yahshua, is the

Personal Intercessor for the Believer! Believers do not need intermediaries,

when He, Who is seated at the right hand of YHWH, is forever interceding!

However, believers have lost their boldness to ask of God; wrongly believing

that He does not answer prayer anymore – not understanding that there are

always criteria and conditions attached; for every blessing, the recipient has

a responsibility as well; and

• Enquiring of the Lord, through utilising the Urim and Thummim was an

uniquely Old Covenant Hebraic experience. Until one realises that either a

king or a priest was always involved in the process. Do Revelations not say

that the believers are a Kingdom of priests and kings? Can they consult

ABBA via the Rock? This Urim and Thummim were carried close to the heart

of the High Priest and when consulted, via the Holy Spirit, revealed the

oracles of YHWH to him. In many separate revelations [each of which set

forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways (Urim, Ephod) God spoke

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of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets, [But] in the (Latter) last of

these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed

Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created

the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made,

produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order], Heb 1:1,2. No one

has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the

Father, he has declared him, Joh 1:18.

This confirms the Shadow found in the Urim and Thummim, is now manifesting

as Yahshua, the Perfect, Who come from within the heart of the Father. He sent

His Ruach HaKodesh (from the heart of the Father) to His kings and priests who

are at this juncture living on the face of the earth. The Holy Spirit reveals the

truth to the one asking – no difference from the Urim and Thummim – YHWH still

does the talking. The difference is that the 21st

century Church does not listen

and do!

The Urim and Thummim are equated to the chief Cornerstone. The first time one

becomes aware of a stone is in Gen 49:24, mentioned in a prophecy, But his bow

remained strong and steady and rested in the Strength that does not fail him, for

the arms of his hands were made strong and active by the hands of the Mighty

God of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. The Rock, his work

is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity,

just and right is He, Deu 32:4. There are more than enough Scriptures that proof

Yahshua is the Rock. Therefore, thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a

foundation a Stone, a tried Stone, a precious Corner Stone, a sure foundation: he

that believeth shall not make haste, Isa 28:16. This tried stone, Who became the

Corner Stone – how could He become tried, if not through the refining fire - and

finding Him Perfect? He was present from Genesis to Revelation. In answering

through the Urim and Thummim, He was manifesting His Presence via the Holy

Ruach. He is the Rock, the Urim from Deu 32:18, 31,32; 1Sam 2:2; 2Sam

22:2,3,32,47, 2Sam 23:3; Psa 18:2, 31,46, Psa 61:2-4; Psa 92:15; Isa 26:4, Isa

28:16, Isa 32:2; Mat 16:16-18; 1Cor 10:4; 1Pet 2:6, Dan 2:34. If the earthly high

priest whilst praying, was immediately enveloped by the Holy Ruach, how much

more ought the believer of today, who has the Holy Ruach residing in them,

begin to receive His answers into one’s spirit, directly from the Throne Room of

the Great High Priest, who for ever lives to make intercession for us? Can the

reader see himself enveloped within the Holy Spirit? Cloth yourselves therefore

with Yahshua HaMashiach!

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The above question would be from one who has not yet understood the richness

of the Believers Hebraic Heritage. During the 40 years in the desert, since the

Hebrews chose not to hear directly from YHWH, and in preparation for the

future, when He pushed His fledgling, Israel, from the nest, YHWH provided

another Comforter in the form of a Rock! This tried stone, Who is the Corner

Stone of Judaism, and Who became the Cornerstone of the Christian faith as well.

The foundation never changed, but religious people formed human traditions

and laws and call it salvation.

There is a general apathy towards the Person of the Ruach HaKodesh for the

mere reason that most believers do not understand His person or role in their

lives per sé, as well as His role as the Executive Officer of the Godhead. This lack

of knowledge is one of the main reasons for the existent apostate condition of

the Church. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have

rejected knowledge (Torah), I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since

you have forgotten the Law (Torah) of your God, I will also forget your sons, even

I, Hos 4:6.

One will find that Torah Observant Jews has the utmost reverence for the person

of the Ruach HaKodesh to this very day, how is it then that the Modern Day

Church has become so insensitive to Him? Could it be that this 21st

Century

Church has grieved Him in such a manner that He has “withdrawn” from the

Church in a sense? As the Living YHWH does not play games (with respect) and

works on HIS principles and by the believers’ faith in Him, how does one explain

the rationale behind the churches failure and breakdown of Her relationship with

Him? The answer is sought from the Church, and not Israel. The perception is

that the Church has to research the root of the problem, as they are experiencing

a serious spiritual lack. In conclusion, to restore a living active relationship with

the Ruach HaKodesh, both Households need to repent and seek forgiveness and

then learn to live actively in His Presence. Such a restored relationship will

prevent deception.

THE DECEPTION OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY

The assertion that the Church, as many believers claim, have replaced Israel as

Elohim's chosen nation, has instigated a conflict situation within the Body of

Yahshua that has been ongoing for two millennia, and to date has totally

estranged the Church from her Hebraic Root and inheritance. When one

methodically compare the spiritual and natural relationship between both

Households (Israel and Judah), there is a total lack of understanding between

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them, and of them, as well as their roles in the Kingdom of YHWH. Even more so,

when the Church (House of Israel) began to persecute the Judean Household,

condemning all that is Jewish, YHWH subsequently cut them off from the

Commonwealth of Israel, Eph 2:12,13.

Before one can form an intelligent well-informed opinion on Replacement

Theology, factual evidence should be evaluated in order to substantiate the

existence of such a theory, which can prove or disprove the possible existence of

such a deceptive theology. To prove the hypothesis that the Church has replaced

Israel, or not, one has to consider the following data that are of paramount

importance as it has direct relevance to the Body of Believers. One has to

understand from the below mentioned literature, the possibility exists that one

can be of Jewish descent, and therefore, perpetrating the crime of racism against

one’s own blood, albeit in ignorance!

• The Dispersion of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel: Hereafter named Ten-Israel

How does the Dispersion of Ten-Israel correlate with the Christian Church and

how does it affect the believer of today? Academics such as Prof Liebenberg, Yair

Davidiy, Rabbi Avraham Feld, et al, have comprehensively studied the migration

of the Israelites, exiled from their homeland, and who have been subsequently

re-settled (albeit under duress) in the various nations and continents. The Ten

Tribes primarily went to the West, Scandinavian countries and South Africa. The

author, Yair Davidiy, wrote three books: The Tribes, the Israelite origins of

Western Peoples; Biblical Truth, the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel in the West according

to the book of Genesis and Role to Rule, the Task of Joseph, traced the Israeli

migrations to every continent – confirming on that ground, that many people,

including South Africans, could have a Jewish DNA. The first South African

immigrants or ancestors originate from every one of the countries mentioned in

their books.

The original Hebrew nation, consisting of the Twelve Tribes, became Israel when

they split into two kingdoms after the death of King David. During the reign of

King Jeroboam, son of Solomon, ten of the northernmost tribes seceded and

formed their own kingdom (1Kin 12:20-23), and was referred to as Israel. The

remaining tribes remained faithful to the House of David, and were called Judah,

later commonly named the Jews. There is more than enough historical proof

identifying Israel as the Lost Ten Tribes or Ten-Israel. Therefore, from this

perspective one understands why Yahshua sent the Apostles to the Lost Sheep of

the House of Israel. The Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes together form the

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Israelite or Hebrew nation, tracing their ancestry back to Abraham, the first

Hebrew man. Abraham was a Gentile, idol worshipper when called by YHWH

into the Faith Covenant.

The ten tribes consist of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Zebulon, Issachar, Naphtali,

Dan, Asher, Simeon, Ephraim, and Manasseh. The last two tribes descended

from Joseph, and they are to be found primarily within the English speaking

nations of North America, and the British Isles and have assimilated into the

nations.

YHWH personally re-named Jacob to Israel and 12 sons were born to Israel. Each

son became a tribal head and contrary to Godly instruction, 10 sons did not

marry Hebrew women; they married women from the surrounding nations.

These mixed marriages resulted in blond, blue-eyed Jews, and therefore, there

are no guarantees that one cannot have a Jewish ancestor, especially given that

the descendants of each tribal head are traceable to the following countries:

• Ephraim to Britain;

• Manasseh to USA;

• Reuben to France;

• Simeon to Celts and Jews;

• Levi with the Jews;

• Yehuda to Jutes and Jews;

• Issachar to Swiss and Fins;

• Zebulon to Netherlands;

• Gad to Goths and Sweden;

• Asher to Scots;

• Benjamin to Belgae and Normans;

• Dan to Danes and Celts;

• Naphtali to Norwegians.

According to the author, Yair Davidiy, there are currently intensive DNA tests

done in the USA and England to determine whether a person residing, for

instance, in England, has a Jewish DNA. The tests are not yet conclusive, but the

characteristics to date, prove a genetic Jewish ancestry trait and link. Only

towards the end of the days, most of the Israeli’s shall return and re-unite with

Judah, who remained in Israel. The Lost Ten Tribes (Israel) were destined to lose

their identity, and then the exile was completed; thereafter named Ten-Israel.

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There are no definite archaeological remains connecting the Israelites to

Northern Israel. The overwhelming majority of Israelites was forcibly removed or

scattered to other localities, where evidence was found of an Israelite presence

in the area, as prophesied in the Bible, as confirmed in Talmudic literature and

other sources. The 10-Tribers (Ten-Israel), lost awareness of their identity and

did not return. Soon after the capture of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the Diaspora took

place. The Diaspora is the scattering of the Jews to countries other than their

own. Initially, the exiles had fled to the surrounding countries of Egypt, Syria and

Phoenicia, but throughout, as persecution mounted, the Jews fled farther and

farther from Israel as they went onto hiding.

Today one will find Jewish communities in every country on the face of the earth,

and they have adopted the physical traits and characteristics of the nations into

which they are assimilated, i.e. blue eyes, blond hair, etc. One will find

Norwegian, Ethiopian, South African, British, American and European Jews!

Soon the Urim and Thummim will surface to assist with the identification of each

tribe.

Studying the Jews in the Diaspora is a specialist field on its own, yet it warrant’s

incorporation into this book as it lays an elementary foundation to study ones

Hebraic Roots and to trace one’s ancestries.

Although the Jews were forced into exile, they took with them the Holy

Scriptures and continued the observance of most of the Eternal Statutes,

including the observance of the Sabbath. Regardless of their circumstances, every

seventh day, the Orthodox Jews all over the world have observed that seventh

day as the Sabbath day; and still doing it to date – the 21st

century. The very

same Sabbath that Yahshua kept whilst on the earth, He was well aware of the

Jews in the Diaspora and therefore, gave the command go first to the Lost Sheep

of the House of Israel, Mat 10:6; Mat 15:24.

Do note that the Jews in Israel call the Messianic Believers (Ten-Israel), and the

Jews, who are still in exile, the lost sheep of the House of Israel. They maintain a

stance that the believers must come into the Covenant; they (the Jews) are

already there. Moreover, they regard the believers as the lost sheep of the House

of Israel. They kept track of migrating Jews in the dispersion and are awaiting

their imminent return. There are therefore, a significant correlation between

the believers Jewish Ancestry, and lack of knowledge regarding their Hebraic

Legacy. This lack of knowledge is the breeding ground for the promulgation of

false doctrines, i.e. Replacement Theology.

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How did this non-Biblical doctrine of Replacement Theology begin? Just the

word’s Replacement Theology creates intense arguments for and against

whether, the Church has replaced Israel as God’s chosen ones - or not. There are

many arguments for - or - against this doctrine, yet, one must allow Scripture to

interpret Scripture. The introduction of “Rabbinical” or Hebraic commentators is

vitally important - the Holy Scriptures originated from, and was written, by

Jewish men under the unction of the Holy Spirit. One cannot address anti-

Semitism without addressing the doctrine of Replacement Theology. The

deception of Replacement Theology is dealt with by introducing two

commentators, from the Two Households, who do agree on the mentioned false

doctrine, emphasising it from their respective Westernised and Hebraic

perspectives!

Introducing then:

1. Rabbinical or Jewish Commentator, Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky; and

2. Messianic (Believer) Commentator, Clarence H. Wagner.

Rabbinical Commentator on Replacement Theology

As Christianity originated from Israel and Judaism, a Jewish Believer will

commence with his perspective on Replacement Theology; I utilised his unique

way of expressing himself.

• Church History as perceived by Jewish Commentator

Rabbi Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky is introduced as the first commentator, and

he describes the Replacement theory as: The hideous falsehood known as

Replacement Theology has been a cancer in theological circles for the past two

millennia that just seems to refuse to go away. While Replacement Theology

takes on different applications, and modes, it is a theology originated by the early

non-Jewish fathers of the so-called Christian church. It coldly states that a new

Rome centred, and Roman based ecclesiastical organisation called "the church",

is the "new Israel". This new Israel, would now forever replace Jewish Israel, since

YHWH permanently rejected the Jews for killing their Messiah, His Son. Extreme

proponents of Replacement Theology have even gone so far as to claim that

YHWH, this mean and cruel despot, was the Elohim of the Old Covenant Jews,

contrary to Yahshua, who is the forever loving, kind, and compassionate Saviour

who had replaced YHWH As Lord of The church or the so Called New Israel. In

other words, Yahshua’s people have replaced the Father’s people.

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• Christianity Perpetrated Genocide on Jewry

The Rabbi continues (paraphrased); this hideous doctrine has been at the

forefront of anti-Semitism, Judeo-phobia, and has fully provided fuel for tragic

historical events such as the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic Crusaders, the

ouster of the Jews from every European country, as well as the Nazi holocaust. As

history clearly demonstrates, Martin Luther, and other Protestant reformers

blueprinted both the call and the plans for the annihilation of the Jewish nation

from Europe and later the world by providing so-called Christians, with biblical

justification to perpetrate genocide on world Jewry. Adolph Hitler knew that he

could find theological approval, and support from these church folks. The inbred

functionalism of this spiritual cancer among those that preach Yahshua is so

widespread that it cannot be fully reversed and eliminated until Yahshua’s

millennial reign begins, shortly before He returns to the earth.

Moreover: the theology of Dominion Now or Kingdom Now is nothing but a Papal

farce, designed to enlist Protestants in a new age attempt to liquidate the Jewish

race, by theology rather than by a sword. They believe twentieth century man

will not respond favourably to any elimination of the Jewish nation via

bloodletting. Therefore, in these last days, we see a major resurgence in church

theology, designed to subdue, and eliminate the Jew. In these various

applications of Replacement Theology, the Jew has no future whatsoever, unless

he agrees to become one with The church, and assimilate their precious customs,

YHWH’s feasts, seventh day Sabbaths, and the rest of their national identity

through incorporation or more accurately through disappearance, and

integration within the church.

• Church Systems are anti-Torah

The Rabbi continuous: These hideous theologies call anything Jewish to be anti

Christ, and legalistic and their practices and customs are not welcome in their

church systems. It is simply fascinating that The Church has this insatiable desire

to institute biblical law, and church sovereignty over the globe by spreading

YHWH’s laws, when one of the major errors within Christianity is the very

rejection, and the denial of the validity of first covenant instruction in New

Covenant times.

The so called church systems have repeatedly and conceitedly proclaimed to its

adherents that the Torah or the Laws of First Covenant Israel is outdated, and

nailed to the cross, and have therefore, been replaced by the second Covenant

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Law, which is love. In other words, this man-made ecclesiastical organisation

started, funded, and headquartered in Rome, now wants to force their paganised

Christendom down the throats of the world’s populace, with obedience to THE

TEN COMMANDMENTS, and other teachings all based on the Decalogue. Whilst

instructing her very own members that it is not applicable to the New Covenant

church. How can a man make ecclesiastical systems that are arrogantly, and

wrongfully antinomian (anti-Torah), being deceptive at it’s very core, force the

world’s populace to submit to rules, and regulations that they themselves loath

as having preceded from the Jewish despot named YHWH, and His Jews?

Remember that in true Replacement Theology a pagan blonde haired, and blue

eyed European, pork eating Jesus (the English translation of the sun deity Zeus),

has replaced YHWH the Father as LORD (from the pagan deity Lourdes), over his

church (from the pagan circular ritual conducted by the Celts).

The most disturbing part of all this is that Replacement Theology continues to

spread overtly, and covertly in these last days seemingly unchecked, and

undetected by believers of all denominations, as well as by Messianic Jews.

Judaism has every right to loath Replacement Theology. However, through error

and pride they not only forsake the true solution regarding the correction of this

error named Replacement Theology, (which is readily available by studying the

Scriptures accurately with a Hebraic mind), they have unknowingly become

accomplices to the doctrine itself.

There are a few more insights into this doctrine of Replacement Theology:

• The first error of this false doctrine is that the church has replaced Israel (the

Jews) as the historical continuation of the people of Israel.

• According to this line of reasoning, Jewish Israel ceased from being a nation,

since Pentecost in 33 AD.

• In other words, a total cessation of all eternal promises, and blessings which

had been promised to the Jews, had come obsolete because the New

Covenant church unilaterally declared the first covenant promises to the

Jews null, and void.

• The truth, of course, is that the physical descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob, had, and will continue to have a crucial and vital role in the historical

and redemptive purposes of the Father. Replacement Theology declares that

the Jews are no different than any other people group, and that their chosen

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status was self appointed, and was terminated when their European non-

Jewish (Jesus) went to the cross, (emphasis mine).

• Shavuot (Pentecost) the Jews inherited the curses and the Christians

became blessed

The truth of course is that no other nation, but the Hebrew nation (12 tribes)

has been earmarked by YHWH to work out His redemptive and earthly will.

Replacement Theology teaches that unless or until Jews get saved, they are

cursed, and have no future or national calling. Unless they willingly join, and

incorporate themselves into the man-made church they will not be blessed.

This fallacy teaches that unsaved Jews are lower than pagans from other

nationalities because they are, in fact, the murderers of Yahshua, and

therefore, eternally guilty of Deocide.

The truth is of course just the opposite, even in their unbelief, they are favoured

and have given life, and hope to the world by their preservation of the Word of

YHWH, in their role as guardians of the Scriptures (Rom 3:2). They returned and

re-inhabited of the waste places of the land of Israel. Rom 11:15 reminds one

that even in their status as unbelieving Jews, that the world was reconciled to

YHWH by that very status, and about the dawning of a new day when Jewish

Israel will be raised from the dead spiritually to receive favour. Rom 11:26 is a

clear reminder that all Israel (Judah and Ephraim) will be saved! Does that sound

like people permanently displaced, and with no future outside of the Roman

Church, and her harlot offspring? Jewish Israel has been, and will continue to be

Supernaturally preserved for the revelation to her of her beloved Messiah

Yahshua, in whose Name they have suffered so very much. His return will bring

them the ultimate reconciliation and restoration, even as His first advent has

brought them much sorrow from the so called church. Replacement Theologists

state that in 33 AD at Shavuot or Pentecost, the Jews lost their calling, in

heralded in the beginning of the Jewish sorrows.

List of Jewish Sorrows:

The Jews inherited all the curses of the Torah found in Deu chapters 28 - 33,

while keeping none of the promised blessings outlined in those same chapters.

• The promised blessings have been separated from the curses, with the

curses falling upon Jewish Israel, and therefore, the blessings fell into the lap

of the Pontiff Maximus (Supreme Divine King), the unholy father in Rome,

and his disciples.

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• The church superimposes a doctrine called the birth of the church at

Pentecost, to justify this separation between Jewish cursing, and Christian

blessing. A Spiritually incorrect statement: the Believers were empowered at

Pentecost!

• The truth is that the clear promises of blessing to Jewish/Israel are

unconditional, such as the promise of the land of Israel. YHWH has never

revoked this Promised Land blessing. Taken to its false and illogical

conclusion if the church is the new Israel replacing Jewish Israel as the

chosen people, then the church is the rightful owner of the land of Israel,

since the land was a blessing, and not a curse – and a “Christian” has yet to

pay a price for this land!

• According to Popery, (which by the way, still does not recognise either the

modern state of Israel or the Set Apart city, Jerusalem), the land of Israel

belongs to them, since they are now Israel instead of or in place of Jewish

Israel.

• In Protestant circles even in some Hebrew Christian circles, the eternal

unconditional promise of Eretz Yisrael to all Israel (12 tribes, including the

Jews), is often referred to as the Palestinian Land Covenant. Despite the

living reality of the modern state of Israel, many within the so called church,

have, and continue to refer to Israel as Palestine, named after the

Palestinians, the modern day descendents of the Philistines, who were the

ancient enemies of Israel.

• After all, if the church has replaced Jewish Israel, she needs a Jewish capital

to govern from. Will YHWH permit Jerusalem to be transferred into the

hands of so called believers? Rest assured the King of the Jews will not, ever

allow that to happen despite the wishful thinking of papists, and ecumenical

supporters worldwide.

• Replacement Theology has the impudence to teach that the Scriptures must

be read spiritually, and absolutely not taken literally, since to do so would

force one to conclude that Jewish Israel is an eternally chosen and

recognisable nation with a special mission. This calling includes the

occupying of a specified portion of land, promised to them alone, above all

the people of the earth. One has to realise that YHWH has kept His Word; a

remnant of Jews was preserved right through the ages! How does one

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explain and nullify the fact that there are Jews all over the world, and how

does one annul the promise to, and Covenant with Abraham? YHWH sees

the face of Avraham all the time! He cannot lie.

• In order to propagate the doctrine of Replacement Theology, a demand is

made upon Bible scholars to understand that the promises made to Jewish

Israel must not be taken literally. In other words, when the First Covenant

uses terms like, Zion, Temple, Jerusalem, promised land, they are all now

synonyms for the so called church. Does this make sense to the Truth-

seeker? The BB Kirkbride Company in Indiana who publishes the widely used

Thompson Chain Reference Bible, has multiple chapter captions in Isaiah,

and other first covenant books that read "Isaiah comforts the church", or

"the church is consoled". When or where did the church exist in Isaiah’s

day? When YHWH uses the term Jerusalem, it is a literal city He has in mind.

When He refers to the nation of Israel, it is the12 tribes He has in mind.

When He refers to the Jews, it is the Jews He has in mind. When He refers to

Zion, it is the land, and Mt. Moriah He has in mind. These are all literal terms,

and titles of different, concepts, places, and locations. To conceitedly, and

incorrectly teach that these are all interchangeable, and synonymous terms

for the "so called Christian church", is an outright attack on the literal

infallibility, and inspiration of scripture, let alone a direct attack on the

Heavenly Father’s linguistic intelligence!

This false doctrine is so deeply embedded in church circles of all denominations,

that, unless the biblical final solution to this doctrine is applied immediately, and

without reservation, the church will be in jeopardy until Messiah returns. (The

problem with waiting for Yahshua to straighten things out at His return is that by

then all will be judged by Him. He reminds believers that by their words, they will

be justified, and by their words (teachings), they will be condemned, Mat 12:37. In

James (Yaakov 3:1), Yahshua reminds us that not many should seek to be

teachers of Scripture, since they will receive the greater judgement for the errors

dispensed. Rav Shaul (Paul), also confirms this truth when he declares that if we

are willing to judge ourselves, we will not be judged by our Master Yahshua, 1Cor

11:31. Paraphrased and summarised from the work of Rabbi Moshe Yoseph

Koniuchowsky (www.yourarmtoisrael.org).

Church History As Perceived By Messianic Commentator

The following author, in a more non-emotive manner, wrote on the error of

Replacement Theology, and confirms the Rabbi’s arguments that this doctrine is

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erroneous, and substantiates his arguments with Scripture. He has done an

exceptional rebuttal of the arguments for Replacement Theology as he literally

allowed Scripture to interpret Scripture. I am neither disrespectful, nor

judgemental, when I write “in a non-emotive manner”, I am very aware of the

price paid by the first Jewish Believers to preach the Gospel! Interpreting

Scripture with Scripture can be defined as contextualising Scripture, which has

become an almost obsolete art in Modern Christianity, whereas the Jews Rav

or wrestle with the Word to find the ultimate Truth.

How Did The Position Of The Early Church Fathers Affect The Church? Briefly

Reviewing Church History

Prof Liebenberg, Mr. Clarence Wagner, and other scholars et al, has documented

all the processes of Church history i.e. the Reformation. Therefore, I will only

refer to time periods (history) of relevance as an introduction to Mr Wagner’s

debate on Replacement Theology. Submitting sound arguments against this

theology, he rebutted the arguments for Non-replacement, with Biblical answers.

Wagner, (www.bridgesforpeace.com, summarised and paraphrased) began his

line of reasoning with the following statement: If you look it up in a dictionary of

Church history (the Replacement Theory), one will not find it listed as a

systematic study. Rather, it is a doctrinal teaching that originated from the early

Church. Christian anti-Semitism grew and has infected the Church for nearly

1,900 years culminating in the Holocaust. Briefly reviewing the first four

centuries of Church history the author established a pattern and legacy of hatred

towards the Jewish people, which was against the clear teaching of the New

Testament.

In the first century AD, the church was well-connected to its Jewish roots, and

Yahshua did not intend for it to be any other way. After all, Yahshua is a Jew, and

the basis of His teaching is consistent with the Hebrew Scriptures. In Mat 5:17-18

He states: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I

have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. I tell you the truth, until heaven

and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by

any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." Before the

First Jewish Revolt in AD 66, Christianity was a sect of Judaism, as were the

Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. Separation between Judaism and Christianity

began as a consequence of religious and social differences.

There were several contributing factors to these differences:

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• The Roman intrusion into Judea, and the widespread acceptance of

Christianity by the Gentiles, complicated the history of Jewish Christianity;

• The Roman wars against the Jews not only destroyed the Temple and

Jerusalem, but also resulted in Jerusalem relinquishing her position as the

Center of the Christian faith in the Roman world; and,

• The rapid acceptance of Christianity among the Gentiles led to an early

conflict between the Church and Synagogue. Paul's missionary journeys

brought the Christian faith to the Gentile world, and as their numbers grew,

so did their influence, which ultimately disconnected Christianity from its

Jewish roots.

• Many Gentile Christians interpreted the destruction of the Temple and

Jerusalem as a sign that YHWH had abandoned Judaism, and that He had

provided the Gentile Believers autonomy to develop their own Christian

theology and self-governing system in an independent setting, free from

Jerusalem's influence. Could it be He was demonstrating to the believers that

Temple worship was no longer necessary as His Holy Spirit now resides in

them (1Cor 6:19), and not in the Holy of Holies? After the Second Jewish

Revolt (AD 133-135), put down by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, theological

and political power moved from Jewish Christian leaders to centres where

Gentile Christian leadership resided, such as Alexandria, Rome, and Antioch.

It is important to understand this change, because it influenced the early

Church Fathers to make anti-Jewish statements as Christianity began to

disconnect itself from its Jewish roots.

• As the Church began to develop within the Roman Empire, and its

membership grew, Non-Jewish Greek and Roman thought patterns

(Babylonian) increasingly began to creep in and completely change the

orientation of Biblical interpretation through a Greek mindset, rather than a

Jewish or Hebraic mindset. This would later result in many heresies, some of

which the Church is still practicing today.

• Once Christianity and Judaism began to take separate paths; the chasm

became wider and larger. Judaism was considered a legal religion under

Roman law, while Christianity, a new religion, was illegal. As Christianity

grew, the Romans tried to suppress it. In an attempt to alleviate this

persecution, Christian apologists tried in vain to convince Rome that

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Christianity was an extension of Judaism. However, Rome was not

convinced. The resulting persecutions and frustration of the Christians bred

an animosity towards the Jewish community, which was free to worship

without persecution. Later, when the Church became the religion of the

state, it would sanction laws against the Jews in retribution.

• The antagonism of the early Christians towards the Jews was reflected in

the writings of the early Church Fathers. For example, Justin Martyr ( AD

160) in speaking to a Jew said: The Scriptures are not yours, but ours.

Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (c. AD 177) declared: Jews are disinherited from the

grace of God. Tertullian (AD 160-230), in his treatise, Against the Jews,

announced that God had rejected the Jews in favour of the Christians.

• In the early 4th century, Eusebius wrote that the promises of the Hebrew

Scriptures were for Christians and not the Jews, and the curses were for the

Jews. He argued that the Church was the continuation of the Old Testament

and thus superseded Judaism. The young Church declared itself to be the

true Israel, or Israel according to the Spirit, heir to the divine promises. They

found it essential to discredit the Israel according to the flesh to prove that

God had cast away His people and transferred His love to the Christians.

From Apostolic Leadership to anti-Semitism and Apostasy

In the beginning of the 4th century, a monumental event occurred for the

Church, which placed "the Church Triumphant" over "Vanquished Israel." In AD

306, Constantine became the first Christian Roman Emperor. At first, he had a

rather pluralistic view and accorded Jews the same religious rights as Christians.

However, in AD 321, he made Christianity the official religion of the Empire to the

exclusion of all other religions. This signalled the end of the persecution of

Christians, but the beginning of discrimination and persecution of the Jewish

people.

Already at the Church Council in Elvira (Spain) in AD 305, declarations were made

to keep Jews and Christians apart, including ordering Christians not to share

meals with Jews, not to marry Jews, not to use Jews to bless their fields, nor to

observe the Jewish Sabbath. Imperial Rome, in AD 313, issued the Edict of Milan,

which granted favour to Christianity, while outlawing synagogues. Then, in AD

315, another edict allowed the burning of Jews if they were convicted of breaking

the laws.

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As Christianity was becoming the religion of the state, further laws and

restrictions were passed against the Jews:

• The ancient privileges granted to the Jews were withdrawn;

• Rabbinical jurisdiction was abolished or severely curtailed;

• Proselytise to Judaism was prohibited and made punishable by death;

• Jews were excluded from holding high office or a military career. These

restrictions were repeatedly confirmed by various Church Councils for the

next 1,000 years;

• In AD 321, Constantine decreed all business should cease on "the honoured

day of the sun." By substituting Sunday for Saturday as the day for Christian

worship/rest, he further advanced the breach in the Two Households. This

Jewish Shabbat/Christian Sunday controversy also came up at the first actual

ecumenical Council of Nicea (AD 325), which concluded Sunday to be the

Christian day of rest, although it was debated for long after that. Overnight,

Christianity was given the power of the Imperial State, and the emperors

began to translate the concepts and claims of the Christian theologians

against the Jews and Judaism into practice. Instead of the Church taking this

opportunity to spread its Gospel message in love, it truly became the Church

Triumphant, ready to vanquish its foes;

• After AD321, the writings of the Church Fathers changed in character. No

longer was it on the defensive and apologetic, but aggressive, directing its

venom at everyone "outside of the flock," in particular the Jewish people

who could be found in almost every community and nation. During this

period, one finds more examples of anti-Jewish bias in Church literature

written by church leaders: Hilary of Poitiers (AD 291-371) wrote: "Jews are a

perverse people accursed by God forever." Gregory of Nyssa (died AD 394),

Bishop of Cappadocia: the Jews are a brood of vipers, haters of goodness. St.

Jerome (AD 347-407) describes the Jews as serpents, wearing the image of

Judas, their psalms and prayers are the braying of donkeys.

• At the end of the 4th century, the Bishop of Antioch, John Chrysostom

(Golden Tongued), the great orator, wrote a series of eight sermons against

the Jews. He had seen Christians talking with Jewish people, taking oaths in

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front of the Ark, and some were keeping YHWH’s feasts. He wanted this to

stop. In an effort to bring his people back to what he called, the true faith,

the Jews became the whipping boy for his sermon series. To quote him, the

synagogue is not only a brothel and a theatre; it is also a den of robbers and

lodging for wild beasts. No Jew adores God... Jews are inveterate murderers,

possessed by the devil, their debauchery and drunkenness gives them the

manners of the pig. They kill and maim one another... One can easily see that

a Judeo-Christian who wanted to hold on to his heritage, or a Gentile

Christian who wanted to learn more about the parent faith of Christianity,

would have found it extremely difficult under this pressure. Another

unfortunate contribution Chrysostom made to promote Christian anti-

Semitism was to hold the Jewish nation, as a whole, culpable for the killing of

Christ.

• In the fifth century, the aggravating question was: If the Jews and Judaism

were cursed by God, then how can one explain their existence? Augustine

asserted that even though the Jews deserved the most severe punishment

for having put Jesus to death, they have been kept alive by Divine Providence

to serve, together with their Scriptures, as witnesses to the truth of

Christianity. Their existence was further justified by the service they

rendered to the Christian truth, in attesting through their humiliation, the

triumph of the Church over the Synagogue. The monarchs of the Holy Roman

Empire regarded the Jews as serfs of the chamber (servi camerae), and

utilized them as slave librarians to maintain Hebrew writings. They also

utilized the services of Jews in another enterprise - usury, or money-lending.

The church endorsed the practice of lending by Jews, for according to their

reasoning, their Jewish souls were lost in any case. Much later, Western

countries utilised Jewish people as trade agents in commerce, and thus found

their way into the fields of banking and commerce.

• By the Middle-Ages, the ideological arsenal of Christian anti-Semitism was

completely established. Expelling Jews from their property and giving it to a

Christian mob became the norm. From a social standpoint, the deterioration

of the Jewish position in society was only beginning its decline. During this

early period, the virulent Judeo-phobia was primarily limited to the clergy

that was always trying to keep their flocks away from the Jews. However,

later, the rank and file, growing middle class would be the main source of

anti-Semitic activity.

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The result of these anti-Jewish teachings continued onwards throughout Church

history, manifesting itself in such events and actions as the Crusaders. The

accusation of communion host desecration and blood libel by the Jews, the

forced wearing of distinguishing marks to ostracize them, the Inquisition, the

displacement of whole Jewish communities by exile or separate ghettoes, the

destruction of synagogues and Judaic books, physical persecution and execution,

the Pogroms. Ultimately, the seeds of destruction grew to epic proportions,

culminating in the Holocaust, which occurred in Christian Europe.

Had the Church understood the clear message of being grafted into the Olive

Tree from the beginning, then the sad legacy of anti-Semitic hatred from the

Church may have been avoided. The error of Replacement Theology is like a

cancer in the Church that has not only caused it to violate God's Word concerning

the Jewish people and Israel, but it made them into instruments of hate, not love

in God's Name.

Is the New Testament anti-Semitic? Was it the intention of YHWH that the

Church rule over and dominate the Jewish nation so contemptuously? An

absolutely no; while the New Testament has been used by Gentile anti-Semites,

even within the church, the writers of the New Testament were Jewish, and

therefore, their arguments, even critical ones, were from the vantage point of

being an intra-communal debate (or rav/wrestle with the Word), and not inter-

communal accusations. For example, even though Yahshua spoke harshly to the

Pharisees, He nevertheless said of them, "The teachers of the law and the

Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell

you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach" (Mat

23:2-3). He was distressed that they were missing the mark in their self-

righteousness, which is something all need to be careful of doing. They were

following traditions formed around the Torah, but lost the Spirit of the Word –

and that is the reason why Yahshua came to the earth to show them one can live

the Torah to perfection in love, not forced traditions.

The clear teaching of the New Testament is that the Church was, and is, to love

and honour the Jewish people. The Word state that by the blood of Messiah, the

Gentiles are made near to the commonwealth, the Covenants, promises and

hopes given to Israel, Eph 2:11-18. The Word teaches that blindness in part has

come to the Jews so that the message would be forced out into the nations.

Nevertheless, a time will come when all Israel would be saved, because the gifts

and callings of God towards Israel and the Jewish people were given without

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repentance. YHWH’s relationship with Israel and the Jewish people is everlasting,

Rom 11:11-12, 25, 26, 29.

THE GRAFTING IN OF THE TWO OLIVE TREES

For an enlightened Hebraic scholar or a person who has become interested, it is

essential to acquire a sound knowledge of ancient Judaism, as there is no need to

fear the Jewishness of Yahshua. For a Gentile to have an authentic relationship

with YHWH, he must humbly accept and appreciate a Jewish Book, believe in a

Jewish Saviour, and be grafted into the Jewish people, thereby taking on their

likeness through a commonly shared believe that YHWH is ONE, the Elohim of all,

and that Israel is His chosen nation. A cursory look at the beginnings of

Christianity reveals a church that consisted exclusively of Jews; indeed, deeming

it as a sect within Judaism, (sect of the Nazarenes, Acts 24:4). Christianity is

Jewish! Some consider Christianity as being a very young religion; not realising

that is it Judaism reformed by Yahshua. When one realises that Christianity is

founded upon Judaism, only then does one realise how ancient the Christian faith

really is, Rom 11:11-37.

The Apostle Paul warns believers about keeping the proper attitude toward

Israel; Do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not

support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, Branches were

broken off so that I could be grafted in. Granted. But they were broken off

because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For

if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either, Rom

11:18-21. Why is it important for believers to understand and heed His

instructions? The Believer’s lineage goes back to Abraham as is pointed out in

many places in Scripture. They are the seed of Abraham, Gal 3:29. In Gen 17:4,

God promised that He would make Abraham the father of a multitude of nations

(goyiim), and the multitudes are already a reality, as soon as the Two Olive Trees

unite.

Furthermore, Believers need to understand the far reaching effects of the

outcome of this unification, as it will force the re-definition of the size and

borders of Eretz Israel. These borders (promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob),

will extend into Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, (Africa)! The Two Households (Olive

trees) need to become one in Spirit, in faith and one culture; the Hebraic culture

or ethos. The Olive Tree mystery does not prove Replacement Theology, but

discredits it. The end-time ministry of the House of Joseph (10 Tribes) will be

pivotal to this restoration. The true Church, as a wild olive branch, will be

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cleansed of her antinomianism and lawlessness. They will see, at last, that they

are the wild olive branch, and that they are being grafted back into Israel, Rom

11:13-27. The scattered lost sheep of the House of Israel will be re-gathered,

Rom 11:25. And the Light of Israel will go out to the nations.

YHWH certainly did not remove all the natural branches (Israel), but only some of

them as can be seen in Rom 11:17. The Root of Israel is still holy, regardless of

what anti-Semitism has taught for two thousand years (11:16). Israel is loved on

account of the patriarchs (11:28); the gifts and calling of all are still irrevocable,

(11:29); and In Romans 9:4-5, one realises many things connects the Israelites to

the immutable Scriptures: ...the adoption as sons; ...the divine glory, the

covenants, the receiving of the Law, the Temple worship and the promises. Theirs

are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ... It

might even shock the religious Christian to realise that the New Covenant, in

which they take so much pride, is a Covenant made with the Hebraic nation as a

whole. Jer 31:31 state: The time is coming, declares YHWH, when I will make a

new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. The Believers

(as the House of Israel) are the beneficiaries of this Covenant solely because they

are grafted into Israel. It is not a Covenant made separately with Gentile people.

The danger is that Christians will look to natural Israel and to the Jewish people

for the roots of their faith, but one must always remember that the True Root is

the Messiah. He is the Root of Israel and every good thing they see in Israel

today, is but His Manifest Presence. In Isa 11:10, In that day the Root of Jesse will

stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of

rest will be glorious. In Rev 22:16, Yahshua is clearly named as the Root: I, Jesus,

have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I AM THE ROOT and

the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. Although the Bible never

specifically compares Yahshua to the olive tree, the clear implication is there by

the fact that He is The Root.

• Ruth an example of an grafted-in Gentile and her attitude

The story of Ruth portrays an example of what a proper attitude toward Israel

ought to be. Ruth illustrated in her life most of the fruit of the Spirit; and she was

truly devoted to her Israelite mother-in-law. She loved her with a deep love and

commitment that led her to forsake her own heritage, and even her country, in

order to be with Naomi. When Ruth arrived in Israel, it was not with the feeling

of superiority that so many Christians had. Instead, she bowed down with her

face to the ground... Rut 2:10. She was willing to abase herself to a position lower

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than a servant girl (13). Her attitude was one of continual mercy and generosity

as she shared her meagre gleanings with Naomi (18). The life of Ruth was also

marked with a true love and commitment to Israel (4:15). Ruth said to Naomi: ...

Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and

where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God,

Rut 1:16. Ruth became a clear example of what the engrafting spoken of in

Romans 11 is all about. If the believers’ lives could simply be patterned after

hers, only then could they consider themselves as wild branches grafted into the

tree of Israel, Rom 11:17. Ruth was grafted right into the Messianic line. Like

Ruth, the believer ought to understand that it is not they who support the root,

but the root supports them, Rom 11:18.

Consider how the Apostle Paul unveiled the mystery of the olive tree. The olive

tree is one of the longest-living trees on earth. Some believe the giant, gnarled

olive trees standing in the Garden of Gethsemane may have been alive at the

time of Christ. The olive is also a very hardy tree, and it is practically

indestructible. If cut down, it will probably grow back and live another thousand

years. In ancient times, the main product of the tree, olive oil, was primarily used

as a food source, anointing oil, for healing and for light. Therefore, the olive tree

is literally the tree of light, and the light speaks of revelation. The Bible declares

that where there is no revelation, people perish Pro 29:18.

In Rom 11:5, the Apostle Paul refers to Elijah who in fear, complained to YHWH

that he is alone among all the Baal worshippers. However, YHWH immediately

corrected Elijah stating that He had a remnant of more than 7000 that did not

bow the knee to Baal, 1Kin 19:18, Isa 10:21. By implication, Paul stated that

although the Jews, as a whole, seemed to have rejected Yahshua as Messiah (in

this present age), YHWH clearly has kept for Himself a remnant of the Jews.

Those who chose Yahshua were set free; the rest allowed satan to blind them to

the truth, to this very day, Isa 6:10, Isa 44:18; Mat 13:14,15; Joh 12:40; 2Cor 3:14,

2Cor 4:4; 2The 2:10-12. This is a temporary blindness on the Jews.

In the 500 years from the days of Zechariah, until the time of Yahshua and Rabbi

Paul, no one understood the shadow of the Two Olive Trees. The Holy One of

Israel ordained and destined Rabbi Paul to re-introduce the Two Olive trees – and

then enlighten them with the Perfect. No wonder that his writings are the most

attacked and misunderstood in all of Scripture, Paul was assigned the priestly

task to reintroduce the answer to Zechariah’s question, of what are the Olive

Trees? Rabbi Paul did an exegesis of the shadow of the Two Olive Trees, and you

need to remember that Scripture always interprets Scripture. Since YHWH’s olive

tree contains both Houses of Israel according to Jeremiah 11, the Apostle Paul,

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who was called for the Gentile nations – for the Jew first, then the Gentile – need

to follow the pattern. Both Households are now to live according to the model

set in the Book of Acts.

There is a secret truth, or mystery, which one needs to know, for it will keep one

from foolish pride. It is that the stubbornness of the people of Israel is not

permanent, but will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to

YHWH and salvation, Rom 11:25. One can regard the stubbornness of the Jewish

nation as mercy; it led to the Salvation of the Gentile nations – and subsequent

jealousy of the Jews. Paul says that only some of the Jews have not followed

YHWH, who has not left them; they have stumbled, but not fallen! Another

mystery of YHWH is that He permitted Israel to reject Messiah, as He wanted ALL

(by choice) to partake in the Commonwealth of Israel. Yudah is the one Olive

Tree and the Gentiles the other. The Bible makes it clear that Christianity does

not stand on its own.

The Jewish nation may not agree with this viewpoint, asserting that the Two

Olive Trees are Israel and Yudah, divided into the Two Houses. This is due to lack

of knowledge as YHWH has pre-ordained for the Gentiles to receive salvation

through Yah-Shua, that is, Yah our Salvation! It is, however, the united house of

Israel that needs to be grafted in – and receive the fullness of the blessings. The

Church did not replace Israel; the Church is to be built on the words of the

Prophets and the Torah. Yudah being the modern-day Jews and Israel is the 10

lost tribes (Ten-Israel), which includes many Christians!

In conclusion, Paul is saying that in a way unknown to the believers, Israel

supports the whole Church and has always done so. They do not support Israel,

but Israel supports them. Israel has been the support of the Church for almost

two thousand years, despite the Church’s anti-Semitism and outright persecution

of Israel. It was Elohim’s plan that the sap or nourishing juices of the old Hebrew

olive tree would supply the Church. In other words, they draw from a very rich

heritage – a Hebraic Legacy, left to them by Yahshua. From this viewpoint, that

the Church is one of the Olive Trees, consider Mr Wagner’s comments:

Messianic Commentator on Replacement Theology

This Messianic Commentator, who is a believer, launched his arguments against

Replacement Theology by introducing age-old theories on this false doctrine.

Wagner (paraphrased) methodically made rebuttals of each perception.

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Commencing with his rebuttals at the juncture where Gentile leadership took

over from Jewish leadership. What are its premises?

• The Christian Church in the purposes of God replaced Israel (the Jewish

people and the land), or, more precisely, the Church is the historical

continuation of Israel to the exclusion of the former.

• The Jewish people are now no longer a chosen people. In fact, they are no

different from any other group, such as the English, Spanish, or Africans.

• Apart from repentance, the new birth, and incorporation into the Church,

the Jewish people have no future, no hope, and no calling in the plan of God.

The same is true for every other nation and group.

• Since Pentecost of Acts 2, the term "Israel," as found in the Bible, now refers

to the Church.

• The promises, covenants and blessings are handed to the Church that has

superseded Israel. All blessing in the Bible ascribed to Israel have been taken

away from the Jews; and they are now subject to the curses found in the

Bible, because of the perceived rejection of the Messiah.

Error of replacement theology and its rebuttals

� Statement: To be a son of Abraham is to have faith in Jesus Christ. For them,

Gal 3:29 shows that son-ship to Abraham is seen only in spiritual, not

national terms: And if you be Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs

according to the promise.

Rebuttal: While this is a wonderful inclusionary promise for Gentiles, this

verse does not exclude the Jewish people from their original covenant,

promise and blessing as the natural seed of Abraham. This verse

simply joins the Gentile Christians to what YHWH had already had in

place with the Israelites.

� Statement: The promise of the land of Canaan to Abraham was only a

starter. The real Promised Land is the whole world. They use Romans 4:13 to

claim it will be the Church that inherits the world, not the Israelites. For the

promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his

seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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Rebuttal: Where does this verse exclude Abraham and His natural prodigy,

the Jews? It simply says that through the law, they would not inherit the

world, but this would be acquired through faith. This is also true for the

Church.

� Statement:

The nation of Israel was only the seed of the future Church, which would

arise and incorporate people of all nations, For from the rising of the sun,

even unto the going down of the same, My Name shall be great among the

nations, and in every place, incense shall be offered to My Name, and a pure

offering for My Name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of

Hosts, Mal. 1:11.

Rebuttal: This is great, and shows that the Jewish people and Israel fulfilled

one of their callings to be a light to the nations, so that God's Word has gone

around the world. It does not suggest God's dealing with Israel was negated

because His Name spread around the world.

� Statement: Yahshua taught that the Jews would lose their spiritual

privileges, and be replaced by other people: Therefore, I am saying to you,

The Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing

forth the fruits of it. (Mat 21:43)

Rebuttal: In this passage, Jesus was talking about the priests and Pharisees,

who failed as leaders of the people. This passage is not referring to the

Jewish people or nation of Israel.

� Statement: A true Jew is anyone born of the Spirit, whether he is racially

Gentile or Jewish: For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that

circumcision which is outward in the flesh; But he is a Jew who is one

inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the

letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God, Rom 2:28-29.

Rebuttal: This argument does not support the notion that the Church

replaced Israel. Rather, it simply reinforces what had been said throughout

the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament), and it certainly qualifies the

spiritual qualifications for Jews or anyone who professes to be a follower of

the God of Israel.

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� Statement: Paul shows that the Church is really the same olive tree, which

was Israel and the Church is now the tree. Therefore, to distinguish between

Israel and the Church is, strictly speaking, false. Indeed, people of Jewish

origin need to be grafted back into the Church (Rom 11:17-23).

Rebuttal: This claim is the most outrageous because this passage clearly

shows that the Gentiles are the wild olive branches which get their life from

being grafted into the olive tree. The tree represents the covenants,

promises and hopes of Israel (Eph 2:12), rooted in the Messiah and fed by

the sap, which represents the Holy Spirit, giving life to the Jews (natural

branches) and Gentile alike. The Gentiles are to remember that the olive tree

holds them up and not to be arrogant or boast against the natural branches

because they can be grafted in again. The olive tree is not the Church. The

Gentile Christians are simply grafted into God's plan that preceded them for

over 2,000 years.

� Statement: All the promises made to Israel in the Old Covenant, unless they

were historically fulfilled before the coming of Jesus Christ, are now the

property of the Christian Church. These promises should not be interpreted

literally or carnally, but spiritually and symbolically, so that references to

Israel, Jerusalem, Zion and the Temple, when they are prophetic, really refer

to the Church (2Cor 1:20). For all the promises of God in Him (Jesus) are Yea,

and in Him, Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Therefore, they teach that

the New Testament needs to be taught figuratively, not literally.

Rebuttal: The promises and covenants are literal, many of them are

everlasting, and the Christians can participate in them as part of their

rebirth, not in that they took them over to the exclusion of Israel. The

Renewed Covenant speaks of the Church's relationship to Israel and her

covenants as being grafted in (Rom 11:17), brought near (Eph 2:13),

Abraham's offspring (by faith) (Rom 4:16), and partakers (Rom 15:27), not as

usurpers of the covenant and a replacer of physical Israel. Gentile believers,

through Messiah, became partakers of YHWH’s inheritance for all of His

children; YHWH shall not break His covenant promises with Israel, Rom

11:29.

CONSEQUENCES FOR THE GENTILE BELIEVERS STRIVING TO REPLACE ISRAEL

The first and utmost result is the total apathy and deepening apostasy of the

Church; secondly,

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• The Church became arrogant and self-centred;

• It boasts against the Jews and Israel;

• It devalues the role of Israel or has no role for Israel at all;

• These attitudes result in anti-Semitism in word and deed;

• Without a place for Israel and the Jewish people today, one cannot explain

the Bible prophecies, especially the very specific ones currently being

fulfilled in Israel – therefore, robbing the Church of her mission;

• Believers are blinded as they don’t understand that many New Testament

passages do not make sense when the Jewish people or Israel are replaced

by the term, Church;

• The Believers today, are deprived of the importance and significance of the

Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament. Many Christians boast of being a New

Testament (NT) Christian or a NT Church as in the Book of Acts. However, the

Bible of the early Church was not the New Testament, which did not get

codified until the 4th century, but the Hebrew Scriptures, which included

the Torah;

• Believers fail to notice the Hebraic/Judaic contextualization of the New

Testament, which teaches one more about Yahshua in His Hebraic culture.

• The Church failed the opportunity to participate and partake in God's plan

and prophecy for the Church, Israel and the world today.

Gentile Believers (Protestantism) Failed To Repudiate Anti-Semitism

Garr, John Dr, Our Lost Legacy, Chap 22, 217, claims that the church failed Israel;

saying: “At the beginning of the sixteenth century, God started the restoration of

Christianity. Idolatry and sacramentalism of the official church were replaced in

various reformed communities by faith in God and in the vicarious atonement of

Jesus Christ. Both the Protestant Reformation and the counter-reformation

within the Roman Catholic Church sought a return to the principles of earliest

Christianity. Nevertheless, they disregarded the most important concerns:

• One of the concerns that the Church Fathers tragically ignored in the

reformation, was the spirit of anti-Semitism; which the leaders failed to

purge from their midst.

• The fathers of Protestantism simply failed to restore their reformed

Christianity to its authentic Hebraic (Jewish) roots. The reformers espoused a

restored faith that was founded on “sola scriptura” (Scripture only) and “sola

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fide” (faith only), and they promoted a return to the Grammatico-historical

hermeneutics of the ancient Carthaginian school of biblical interpretation;

• They characteristically failed to employ fully both their mottos and their own

hermeneutics. Scripture continued to be interpreted in the light of their own

cultural biases rather than on its Hebrew grammar and the Jewish history

and ethos in which it had been written.

The results for the Jewish people continued to be catastrophic as most reformed

traditions continued to perpetuate the Judaeo-phobia, anti-Judaism, and anti-

Semitism that they inherited from Rome. This was manifest in the demonic

doctrine of supersessionism (Replacement Theology) and other anti-Judaic

teaching – culminating to its ultimate peak – the Holocaust.

In Defence of Both Households – Imminent Restoration

The data assembled are enough for us to concur on and confirm the current

apostate position of the 21st

century Church. However, it would be preposterous

to assume that anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology are the only reasons for

this situation in the Church.

Therefore, we can conclude that the atrocious mistakes made by the Papal and

Founding Fathers of the Church, are the leading causes for anti-Semitism, directly

resulting in the apostate condition of the Body Corporate and subsequent

withdrawal of the active Presence of the Holy Spirit. In defence of the lay people,

the mistakes were made through Leadership and not by the uninformed

believers; they were deceived; yet anyone can differentiate between right and

wrong – I am referring to the Holocaust as Believers continue perpetrating the

same deception through ignorance. Modern day Believers have free access to

the Scriptures, which were not the case in the times of the Papal and Church

Founding Fathers.

I would emphatically like to state the following: that church leaders per sé do not

have the courage to juxtapose the Church to Israel from a Hebraic Root

perspective. A Pastor, who publicly takes a stand for Israel, would immediately

be labelled as legalistic and pro-Jew by anti-Semitic church members. The lack of

knowledge regarding Hebraic Roots, and what it consists of, are detrimental to

the church. There are, however, believers who, for selfish gain, would identify

with Israel for one reason, monetary gain. This does not include Messianic

inclined members who have researched their Hebraic Roots and have identified

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with their Legacy. When one takes a stand for the land of Israel, the living

YHWH, the God of Israel sees and judges the heart and motives of men.

The aforementioned clarified and emphasised the significance, importance, and

outcomes of this research for the Body overall.

Concluding Replacement Theology

Whilst evaluating the above-mentioned comparative studies of Church history, as

perceived by both Households, it became exceedingly clear that the Church

Fathers has misled and deceived the Church for centuries. This deception led the

Church into believing that She has replaced Israel as YHWH’s chosen Holy nation.

This deception is one of the most damaging and contributing factors to the

apostasy and powerlessness of the church – the perpetration of a lie, which the

Holy Spirit cannot bless, and therefore, the Church became poor in Spirit,

spiritual gifts and demonstrations of YHWH’s Godly power – and in dire need for

restoration. Restoration can only come to a Church who is prepared to restore

Her Hebraic Roots and be reconciled with the Household of Judah.

In conclusion, one can only identify the spirit behind the Replacement Theory,

and that is the spirit of Anti-Semitism. This spirit is fuelling the division between

the Two Houses of YHWH and preventing their restoration, to the detriment of

both Houses! There is no real Spiritual power in either of the Two Households!

The so-called Church has nothing to provoke the Jews to jealousy with according

to Rom 11:11. The Westernised Church as well as the Hebraic Assembly has failed

in their mission to be a light unto the nations, and is it is appallingly apparent that

there can be no blame shifting – the root is the human desire for power,

resources, money and control. The Scriptural message of submitting one unto

the other is totally lost in their quest for power – and it is not for the freely

available spiritual power by the Ruach HaKodesh.

As an introduction to this book and its research, I commented on the astonishing

rate of development in the field of technology, as well as the mass increase of

knowledge, yet when the above truths are analysed, it becomes clear that the

mind of mankind is blinded, covered with a veil – and the Truth has yet to

penetrate the hearts and minds of man! If the Spirit of Truth does not penetrate

this veil, there will be no lasting restoration – in line with the prophecy as written

at the beginning of this Chapter!

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YHWH has the final Word on the unbiblical term Replacement Theology

Replacement Theology is entirely a fabrication of man’s imagination; therefore,

allow the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Covenant keeping Elohim, to speak

for Himself regarding Creation, Israel and her destiny; commencing with His

Everlasting Covenant with the earth: As long as the earth remains, there will be

springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night, Gen

8:22. Is the earth still here? YHWH equates this Everlasting Covenant made with

the earth, to the Covenant He made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -

unbreakable. Elohim speaking: I have made a covenant with the day and with

the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can

never be broken. In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David

that he would always have a descendant to be king (this does not mean that a

Davidic king will always be visible. It means every generation will have the seed of

King Dawid preserved, until the real Messiah comes to take His eternal throne.

Moreover, this reference is to all 12 tribes, here called House of Yisrael (not a

separate Jewish ruler over the House of Efrayim), and I have made a covenant

with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me (The

Levitical priesthood will never perish, or be replaced, though they will take on a

new role); and those covenants can never be broken. I will increase the number

of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of

Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the

sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. (Does this sound like a repetition of the

Avrahamic and Davidic Covenants, which is eternal and unconditional?).

The LORD said to me, "Have you noticed how people are saying that I have

rejected Israel and Judah, the two families (Households) that I chose”? - Since 721

BCE YHWH has had two chosen (physical) families - Judah and Efrayim. And so

they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation

(YHWH rebukes the ill will harboured towards the Two Houses by the

surrounding nations who thinks that YHWH had cast them off forever, rather

than for merely a season for a time of exile and discipline). “But I, the Elohim,

have a covenant with day and night, and I have made the laws that control earth

and sky. And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant

with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's

descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be

merciful to my people and make them prosperous again." Jer 33:20-26. All these

shall not cease to perform according to their natural course; and Only then will

my covenant with David, my servant, be broke, but this is YHWH’s reply: I would

no more reject My people than I would change My laws of night and day, of

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earth and sky. I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my

servant, Instead, I will restore them to their land and have mercy on them, Jer

33:21-26.

YHWH then challenges mere man: If you can break My covenant that I formed

with the day and with the night to be in their time, only then can I (YHWH) break

My Everlasting Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am as likely to reject

my people Israel as I am to do away with the laws of nature! Jer 31:36

And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of

Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the

places where they have been scattered. I will unify them into one nation in the

land. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations.

They will stop polluting themselves with their detestable idols and other sins, for I

will save them from their sinful backsliding. I will cleanse them. Then they will

truly be my people, and I will be their God. My servant David will be their king,

and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey My regulations and keep

My Laws. They will live in the land of Israel where their ancestors lived, the land

I gave My servant Jacob. They and their children and their grandchildren after

them will live there forever, generation after generation, and my servant David

will be their prince forever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an

everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and multiply them, and I will put

my Temple among them forever. I will make my home among them. I will be

their God, and they will be my people. And since my Temple will remain among

them forever, The Nations will know that I, the LORD, have set Israel apart for

myself to be Holy, Eze 37:21-28. I the LORD, never change; That is why you

descendants of Jacob haven't been destroyed yet, Mal 3:6. Does this sound as if

the Living YHWH has replaced Israel with the Church? No, it seems more likely

that He is merging the two groups into one Household.

Hebraic Custodianship of all the Scriptures: YHWH’s Seal of Approval

The Jewish nation, as a whole, was appointed guardians or custodians of the

Oracles of God:

• What then is the advantage the Jew? Or what is the profit (value) of the

circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were

committed the oracles of God (very words of Elohim), Rom 3:1, 2!

• You (Hebrews) shall safeguard (these laws or Oracles) and do (them), for

(through) this you (will be considered) wise and intelligent in the eyes of the

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nations, who will hear about all these statues and say “This is a great nation

is purely a wise and intelligent people”. For which (other) great nation has

God so close to them (to accept their prayers) as the LORD our God is in all

things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that

hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law (Torah), which I set

before you this day? Deu 4:6-,8; Rom 2:18, Rom 9:4; Neh 9:13,14; Psa 78:4-

7, Psa 147:19,20; Isa 8:20; Eze 20:11,12; Luk 16:29-31; Joh 5:39; 2Tim 3:15-

17; 2Pet 1:19-21; Rev 19:10. Intelligence comes from living Torah! Who can

deny that the Jewish people are a very intelligent nation?

• And that from infancy thou hast known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able

to make thee wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All

scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for

reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God

may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works, 2Tim 3:15 - 17.

• For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need of one to teach

you again which are the first principles of the oracle (Torah) of God; and are

become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food. For every one that

useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe, Heb

5:12,13. This lack of teaching the first principles of the Oracles of God

(Torah); is this not the current position of both Houses? Are there still Torah

teachers, Levites, fulfilling their YHWH ordained function? Both Households

negated the Oracles of YHWH in their quest for power and man-made

doctrines.

• Both the Apostles, Paul and Peter, had to address these very issues (of

Replacement Theology and doctrines of men) surfacing in the Apostolic

Churches that they planted. It is clear from the following verses that the

roles of both Peter and Paul needed definition in order for the Assembly to

function in unity. They agreed that there are a diversity of cultures and

influences; nonetheless, their main goal was the preaching of the Gospel.

Defining their specific roles in the Assembly, kept the unity intact and the

Anointing present. But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel of the

uncircumcised (Gentiles) was committed to me, as the gospel of the

circumcision (Jews) was to Peter for he that wrought effectually in Peter to

the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me towards the

Gentiles, And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,

perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the

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right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the heathen, and they to the

circumcision Gal 2:7-9 - the results were absolute unity.

It is clear from Scripture that the Israelites knew their role as Custodians of the

Scriptures, and they protected it fiercely for more than 4000 years; in the process

making mistakes, as they believed it was uniquely for them. Subsequent to the

outpouring of the Holy Ghost, the Spiritual Jews realised that this Word is for all

nations; a Revealed Truth which did not form part of the Pharisees (sect)

planning. When the Jewish believers finally, on YHWH’s command, (Apostles

Peter and Paul) entrusted the Scriptures and Gospel to the Gentiles, it was ever

so reluctantly as the Gospel is for the Jew first and then the Gentile. To this day,

the Jews see themselves as the custodians of the Tanakh – and have paid a great

price for its preservation! The Jews also acknowledge that the Renewed

Covenant was written by Jews, for Jewish Believers in Yahshua.

I have to ask a well-substantiated question to the Western World Gentile

believers, what are they doing to reciprocate this same goodwill to the Jew? The

Command to preach the Gospel to every creature is still valid and binding today;

for the Jew first. Is the modern day Gentile prepared and equipped to sacrifice

and suffer for the Jew as much as the Jew endured to impart the Scriptures to the

Gentile Believers?

When one continues to research the causes for the absence of the manifest

Presence of the Ruach HaKodesh, one finds that both the Church and Israel have

been deceived for many ages! Replacement Theology is one of the uppermost

root causes for the apathy and lack of power in the Church. History offers

abundant confirmation of this fact. Christianity was gradually divorced from

Scriptural Judaism, and in the process, denying both Jewish and Gentile believers

their authentic Hebraic inheritance. An apostate Church equals a Church that

has lost her Hebraic identity, which equals the absence of the manifest Ruach

HaKodesh Presence!

THE LOST LEGACY OF THE HEBRAIC CHURCH AND THE NEGATION OF HEBRAIC

ROOTS

I believe that as this research process progressed, the topic of a possible Hebraic

legacy became gradually evident; therefore, merits an analysis as one of the

latent and emergent causes for the apostasy and limited manifestation of His

Holy Spirit Presence.

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An apostate Church equals a Church that has lost her Hebraic identity! Does the

Church have such a legacy and if yes, does it have any value for the modern day

Church or Believer? Is there a legacy waiting for the beneficiary (Believer) to lay

hold of, and is restoration possible? Can this legacy be restored, if found? What

do the aforementioned learned scholars say on the topic of the Believers lost

legacy? How will it affect the westernised mindset of the 21st

century believer?

The author, Body Corporate and Judean Household is, to a great extent, indebted

to Dr John Garr for his inestimable contribution towards restoring the Believers

Hebraic Legacy. Dr Garr’s book and the researchers’ lectures are substantially

merged for teaching purposes, as both share the same viewpoints.

The Church is not only deceived, but robbed of Her Legacy – therefore,

restoration has become mandatory. Thus, when one talk about the Scriptural

foundations of Christianity it is, firstly, from a Jewish perspective, Joh 4:22. A

Believer, could perhaps utilise the term Biblical Roots; however, this term does

not necessarily convey concepts clearly, for virtually all the diverse cultural

manifestations of Christianity consider their doctrines and practices to be biblical

– though, they are, in reality, not Scriptural! To be truly Scriptural, is to think and

function from a Hebraic perspective, (Jewish authentic mindset). It is the

experience of the author that countless believers do not understand that their

Messiah himself was Jewish. He commissioned His Jewish Apostles and followers

to preach among all nations the Gospel of Yahshua haMashiach, (Oracles of God,

not Oral Torah), which in itself remained inherently Jewish. In Chapter Four I

shall expand on the term Reformed faith.

The Originator of Judaism

Before the creation of the world, in heaven, there was only one religious system,

by which the angelic host worshipped the Eternal God. When man was brought

forth upon the earth, his function was to bring the praise and honour to the

Elohim of this planet; therefore, YHWH began to reveal to humankind the

manner and the order of worship, which pleased him. The pure lineage of a

patriarchal priesthood, from Adam through Seth to Shem to Abraham was

maintained to offer up sacrifices and worship to God – a system that eventually

constituted an Eternal Covenant with Moshe and Aaron and his descendants.

On the contrary, the descendants of Adam through Cain chose the path of

deception, polluting the pure worship of God in order to offer sacrifices to idols

and material gods, even honouring the devil himself. Cain contaminated his

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lineage with the seeds of deception, lies and its accompanying religious

perversion. Finally, the situation deteriorated to such an extent that YHWH

determined to destroy the earth. At that time, Noah and his family had

maintained a righteous lifestyle - therefore; he alone had the right to the

priesthood to offer acceptable sacrifices unto YHWH. For this reason, Noah found

grace in the eyes of YHWH and was given a plan for the salvation of his

household and human race.

Following the great flood, Noah’s son, Ham, began to perpetuate evil in the world

and the stage was set for subsequent generations to devise the various pagan

religions that worshipped the heavenly creation and engaged in wanton

practices, glorifying the works of the flesh and exalting men above the knowledge

of Elohim. All religions of the earth, except the one true religion of YHWH, are

but polluted copies of the original. They are all counterfeits, introducing their

own gods, but maintaining corrupted examples of the principles as instated by

YHWH.

In the midst of this Babylonian confusion, YHWH called a direct descendant of

Adam through Seth and of Noah through Shem and directed him to leave his

Syrian household, into a land where the altar of YHWH would be found, the city

that had foundations whose Builder and maker are Elohim, Heb 11:10. This man

was Abraham, the father of the Faith Generation, the first human being chosen

by Elohim to come into a covenant with his Maker, Gen 12:1- 4. Elohim chose him

because he had the faith to believe His promises, because he was faithful to keep

all of God’s commandments (Gen 26:5), and because YHWH knew he would

teach his children and grandchildren to be obedient to Him, Gen 18:18-19.

YHWH Confirms His Judaic System with Moses

Through Abraham’s lineage, Elohim promulgated His chosen worship system until

the calling of Moshe, who brought the Faith Generation before Him at Mount

Sinai. It was there that YHWH revealed to Moses and the children of Israel his

divine pattern for praise, worship, and ministry unto Him. YHWH permitted

Moshe to look into the heavens to behold the order employed by the angelic host

in the worship of the Eternal. Moshe was instructed to establish that same order

among Israel by making all things according to their pattern, (Exo 25:40; Heb 8:5).

People named YHWH’s system of worship, Judaism. The Living Word, the Torah,

manifested Himself on Mount Sinai; He became flesh and dwelt among us, but

the grading down the Living Word to be a label named Judaism or Christianity -

twisted it into a powerless religious practice - robbing them of its blessings!

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Not only did YHWH institute Judaism as His preferred form of worship and praise,

He also gave His immutable Word. Would He then, revoke this system of

Worship for another or would He send Someone to Perfect it by living it, proving

it is possible to live a sinless life? Why would YHWH revoke this worship system

as currently practised in heaven?

Did YHWH Revoke Judaism and the Tanakh by starting a new Religion called

Christianity

Is it conceivable that YHWH to whom is ascribed immutability throughout the

Scriptures could be so inconsistent as to try anything until perchance he finds

something that works other than Judaism? Could He give up on authentic

Judaism, a fifteen-hundred-year-old religion that He, Himself, had authored, and

start a completely new religion called Christianity? Does this make sense, even to

an unbeliever?

From the foundation of the world, His divine plan of salvation has constantly

been unfolding in each succeeding generation and will continue to unfold until its

culmination in the Sabbatical Millennium and His Theocratic Rule is established.

YHWH has been calling out chosen vessels to make up the Body of Messiah to set

the stage for the remaining part of the plan, the imminent reign of Messiah upon

the earth and the subsequent destruction of evil and death. YHWH certainly did

not give the axe to Judaism and now structures a new religion called Christianity.

He merely brought the Reformer into the world to bring perfection to the Jewish

faith and to extend that faith to all mankind.

The believe-system of the original church was Judaism, perfected by the

Reformer of the Renewed Covenant, a Judaeo-Christianity or Christo-Judaism, as

it were. The earliest church was altogether a part of the Jewish community and

did not attempt to break away from Judaism until after the passing of its first

generation of leaders who were appointed by Yahshua, Himself. What is called

Christianity today is the product of two millennia of tradition and effective

attempts to merge the principles of the Bible with the religions and philosophies

of the Gentiles. Church history offers abundant confirmation of this sad fact.

Christianity was gradually divorced from Scriptural Judaism, and in the process,

both Jewish and Gentile believers were denied their heritage in Judaism.

Therefore, both Households need to be restored to the Hebraic Root of their

faith, Yahshua Moshiach, the Great High Priest.

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Neglecting the Reformation of Messianic Eternal Priesthood

The Priesthood being an Eternal Office or appointment; it is also an ongoing

Appointment in Heaven through the Person of the Great High Priest, Yahshua

HaMashiach – eternally as it is an Everlasting Statute. When one is researching

the Hebraic Roots of the Christian faith, invariably one will come upon the term

Eternal or Everlasting Priesthood. Once again, one may say the Priesthood was

abolished with the Law. Only to discover that the Book of Hebrew state that

Yahshua received an Everlasting Priesthood - and He is currently officiating in this

Office (calling) as High Priest, Intercessor and Advocate! Where Yahshua, (in

advance) running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as High Priest

for us, in the order (rank) of Melchizedek, Heb 6:20.

Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky, (Restoration Scriptures) explains the consequential

Reformation that materialised within this Priesthood, and not the annulling of

the Torah as follows: By definition in order to be ordained into the Order of

Malki-Tzedek, the Priesthood had to exist prior to Yahshua and by definition

Yahshua could not have been Malki-Tzedek, since another one already

established the Order before Him. The Torah was not done away with, but

adjusted, or slightly altered, to accommodate a better, more complete

priesthood and sacrifice. Strong’s Greek # 3346 metatithaymee means “moved

from one place to another, not eliminated.” So the priesthood was shifted, not

eliminated. Notice that Yahshua was like Malki-Tzedek, so He could not have also

been Malki-Tzedek. Only the transferring of the priesthood took place from one

tribe to another, and of the forsaking of the old priestly order to establish the

new. The Messianic Priesthood is established instead of the Aronic by

transferring the priesthood within the nation of Yisrael itself. This simply means

that the original Malki-Tzedek was Shem, as confirmed in the Scroll of Yasher.

Yahshua was born into that existing Order and became Malki-Tzedek as Shem

before Him (as seen in v. 4 where Abraham pays Shem’s tithes). In this verse,

Rabbi Moshe states that both the original Shem and the One sworn into that

order by the oath of YHWH are not listed in the Levitical genealogies. No record

of any of their parents being from Levi are recorded, since neither was a priest in

the order of Levi. Neither Shem, nor Yahshua has recorded beginning of days, nor

end of a priestly Levitical life, since neither was ordained to begin, or end in that

service. Both, however, do have genealogies listed in Scripture. Shem, like

Yahshua served in an eternal order and positionally (the right or appropriate

place), he prefigured Yahshua, who serves in that same Eternal Order that can

never pass away. So what is about to grow old and pass away is the priesthood

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that then ministered in the Temple - not the Torah itself. Even the language bears

this out, as the term “near disappearing” means that the Temple had not yet

been destroyed, and therefore, the Levitical priesthood was still functional

despite Yahshua's role as the High Priest in the order of Malki-Tzedek. In essence,

the prophecy of the Temple’s imminent destruction, along with all its altars,

priesthood and functions will soon be fulfilled. Yahshua's entree into the Holy of

Holies could not be accomplished as long as the earthly priests did their service.

The ripped veil was the curtain between the Holy and Most Holy Place, preparing

access for Believers into the Holy Place; as their High Priest does His work alone

in the Holy of Holies, a place to where no believers have ever gone, for they are

priests and not the High Priest of the nation.

And this High Priest, Yahshua, has appointed for Himself an Eternal Messianic

Priesthood (Kingdom of Priests) on the earth (Rev 1:6; 5:10). Why, if His High

Priestly services and worship are unendingly functioning in heaven, would He

dispose of it on the earth, as He established this pattern on earth because He

even now, desires to be worshipped by His creation? The westernised Believer

cannot identify with this Priesthood as they never had a Temple service and

order, and therefore, cannot unconditionally minister as a priest unto YHWH.

Yes, the rituals and format of the sacrificial and worship systems was temporarily

suspended since the Lamb of YHWH was slain and the Temple destroyed.

Yahshua is the Eternal Lamb, sacrificed for the sin of man, as planned (and

performed!) from before the laying the foundation of the earth:

• You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the

useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition (not law) from [your]

forefathers, not with corruptible things [such as] silver and gold, But [you

were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a

[sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot. It is true that He was chosen and

foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the

world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last

days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you 1Pet 1:18 – 20.

• So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a

compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim to

make atonement for the sins of the people, Heb 2:17.

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• For Christ didn't enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the

Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins, Heb 9:24.

Westernised believers do not really understand the concept of a sacrificial

Lamb as it is not part of their framework of reference, where in contrast, for

millennia it was a daily occurrence for the Israelites. He entered as the Great

High Priest – we are merely priests.

When one studies the book of Hebrew in this context, it becomes clear that

YHWH, through the Moshiach dealt with all sin offerings. The praise offering and

other sacrifices YHWH did not do away with - it was pleasing unto Him as He

initiated and established it - a Shadow of what is happening in heaven. Did both

Households fail Him by not continuing with certain sacrifices and offerings

(bearing in mind the destruction of the Holy Temple)? Could this be a reason for

the apostasy in the Church, departing from a form of worship that was pleasing

unto Him? Believers many times quote a Scripture from the head knowledge

without realising the spiritual impact; they are a Kingdom of priests on the earth

to the Holy One of Israel – and have failed to perform their priestly duty;

eventually becoming one of the reasons for the absence of a powerful Holy Spirit

input into their lives. Despite clear teachings in the Torah that the Father gave

the Priesthood ministry to Aaron and his sons forever, this Everlasting

appointment Believers disregard or dismiss as outdated religion. How is it

hermeneutically consistent to accept an Everlasting Covenant with Judah and

Israel as being eternal, yet in the same breath deny an everlasting covenant with

Aaron and Levi as being eternal?

The Priests Belong To YHWH Forever

For the Levitical Tribe, the word forever has great significance, whilst westernised

people teach that the Eternal Covenant and appointments of the priestly tribe of

Levi have ended and are no longer applicable. The Westernised teaching is that

in New Testament times, all believers in Yahshua have become priests,

subsequently deeming the role of the today’s Hebraic Levitical priests obsolete.

According to man’s opinions the Levi's eternal covenants and appointments

apparently have become outdated. Ponder this, forever - not for a million years,

not for epochs, or ages, but as Webster notes: For eternity; for always; endlessly.

Does man then, have the right to decide that an Eternal Covenant or Statute as

instated by YHWH, has become obsolete?

YHWH our Elohim, however, is forthright in stating His ownership of the Levites:

the Levites shall be Mine. Twice in Numbers Chap 3, YHWH says, Take the Levites

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instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel... The tribe of Levi

supports the ministry of Aaron in Israel and ...the needs of the whole

congregation.... Moreover, Moses reminds the children of Israel: Take heed not

to forsake or neglect the Levite [God's minister] as long as you live in your land.

Why is it important today for both Households not to forsake the Levites? For

the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the

Name of the Lord, him and his sons forever. When one becomes born again, one

become a priest of the Most High, through Messiah, and therefore belongs to

Him. This will automatically include the Divine blessings for the Messianic

Priesthood – yet this priest has a responsibility and service to render unto the

Holy One of Israel – also to receive tithes and offerings in the Name of YHWH and

to administer it as instructed in the Torah.

The Father told Jeremiah that His covenant with David and Levi would endure as

long as day follows night and night follows day. When King David says, He has

made with me an everlasting covenant..., one readily accept it as everlasting or

without end. Additionally, the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

prophesied everlasting or perpetual covenants concerning Israel and again these

covenants are accepted as everlasting, perpetual, or never ending. On the other

hand, when Modern Believers need to apply the same words directly and

unequivocally to the Father's Eternal Covenant with Levi and Aaron, these

covenants are denied and rejected as outdated or Law.

The Apostle Peter never intended his Epistles to the Jews (in the Diaspora) to be

used to teach the cessation of God's Eternal Covenants and appointments with

Levi and Aaron. Dr. David Friedman, They Loved the Torah, identifies Peter as the

Torah-observant talmid hakham or "leading student" of Rabbi Yahshua. "Any

rabbi's talmid hakham would have viewed his rabbi as a role model and would

have closely followed his teachings. This is the way the world of rabbis and their

students, functioned in first-century Israel. It is inconceivable that Peter, the

Saviour's leading student, taught Israelites in his Epistles that the Eternal

Covenants given in the Torah to Levi and Aaron were abrogated or cancelled.

At this juncture, Israel has Rabbis teaching the Jews (all over the world) the Torah

and studying the weekly Torah portions, called Parshah. Furthermore, the Jewish

nation is in much anticipation; awaiting the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. The

Temple Institute has actually created all instruments needed during Temple

service, as well as the High Priestly Robe and priestly tunics – all ready and

waiting to be utilised once the Temple is rebuilt. The training of young priests for

Temple duty is in full swing. The Jewish Temple Priests know their destiny and

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future role – and that they belong to YHWH in line with the covenant made with

them.

Traditional and Messianic Priestly Functions

According to the Torah, Israel's priests were to minister to YHWH, and to

represent the people before God. The atoning sacrifice of Yahshua on the Cross

opened the way for personal relationship between man and YHWH, His Elohim,

eliminating the need for animal sacrifices. The Bible, however, is replete with

everlasting promises relating to the Levitical priesthood and the application

thereof, Ken F Hill, www.houseofaaron.org.

• Priests functioning during the Theocratic and Kings Era

Moshe received explicit instructions from YHWH pertaining to Priestly duties.

There are detailed descriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy,

and they were performed to perfection. The priests knew the penalty for

disobedience. The Israelites lived disease free for 40 years in the desert, just

because they obeyed all the Levitical prescripts and the Law (Torah) of YHWH,

including dietary laws! Whilst studying Hebraic roots, and priestly duties, per sé,

it is only appropriate to consult those who have thousands of years of experience

of sacrificial systems and priestly duties, the Hebrew nation.

• Priests functioning during the Messianic Era

In this 21st

century Grace Dispensation (bearing in mind the Christians lack of

understanding of their Hebraic Roots) – it seems the Believers have an indifferent

approach towards their duties as His appointed priests. How does one counter

the centuries old tradition of lies? By teaching Scriptural truths and presenting

one’s body, as a sacrifice is only one of the Priestly requirements for Believers;

much can be said about Christians and how they violate their bodies (Temples),

with the resulting diseases and self-deception of, we are under Grace.

Yahshua, himself, appointed the believers as a kingdom of Priest unto YHWH,

their God (Rev 1:6, 5:10). This could only mean that both Households have failed

Him in their priestly duty as very few believers linked and applied these

Scriptures to them self! This is Old Testament attitude has robbed the modern

day believer of an intimate relationship with the living God, Who through Paul

invites one to be part of the Restoration of all things:

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• I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer ourselves

as a sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please him; it is the

logical Temple Worship for you. Don't be conformed to this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the

good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God because of the grace God has

given me, Rom 12:1,2 CJB.

• To be a servant of the Messiah Yahshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly

duty of presenting the good news of God, so that the Gentiles may be an

acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh. In union with the

Messiah Yahshua, then, I have reason to be proud of my service to God, Rom

15:16, 17.

• Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, You shall forgive all

iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the

offering of our lips, Hos 14:2, 3, (Rashi Judaica Bible).

• Let's take our place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial

blood of animals but pouring out sacrificial praises from our lips to God in

the Name of Yahshua, Heb 13:15.

• You yourselves, as living stones (Urim Thummim), are being built into a

spiritual house to be cohanim (priests) set-apart for God to Offer Spiritual

Sacrifices acceptable to him through Yahshua the Messiah,1Pet 2:5 CJB.

The question is, how can the believers know what are their Priestly duties if they

are not taught? Here the Judean Household failed the Western Household

(Christians); very few of them are prepared to teach believers the truth. But how

can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they

believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about

him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without

being sent? Rom 10:14, 15. YHWH entrusted to the Judean Household with His

Oracles, but they failed the Household of Israel and the Gentiles. In defence of

this statement, many Messianic Jews are beginning to share with the believers

the hidden things of their Hebraic Roots, at the risk of being ostracised by their

communities.

There are rewards for those who voluntarily bring spiritual sacrifices to the Living

God, Jew and Gentile. Also the foreigners who join themselves to YHWH to

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minister to him, and to love the name of YHWH, to be his servants, everyone who

keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant even them will I

bring to my Holy Mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their

burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on My altar; for My house

shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. Do note this is an end time

prophecy! The Lord YHWH, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I

gather others to him, besides his own who are gathered, Isa 6:6,7,8. The

Restoration of all things is imminent (Act 3:19-21), including an active and trained

Messianic Priesthood, and most definitely, the return of Messiah will include the

rewards as mentioned!

THE ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD OF MELCHIZEDEK IN HEAVEN AND THE RESTORED

PRIESTHOOD OF ZADOK ON THE EARTH

If the above is true, and the discerning reader realises; there is a Priesthood

under which the Believer must function, what is the name of this Priestly Order

and what are the functions?

YHWH called Yahshua according to the Order of Melchizedek, the King of

Righteousness. Melchizedek is more a title or designation of honour - to be filled

by a worthy candidate. The term is a transliteration of two Hebrew words, melek

and tsedeq. The Hebrew melek means king and tsedeq means righteousness,

therefore, the term Melchizedek means literally, king of righteousness. A king is

always pre-eminent in his jurisdiction, whoever Melchizedek was; he had to be

pre-eminent in righteousness. He had to be the king of righteousness; and the

believer is called under the Holy Spirit Ministry of Zadok, the ministry for the

faithful. The root words for Zadok are also Melek and tsedeq, thus the High Priest

and His offspring are still from the heavenly bloodline of the King of

Righteousness. You are partners with Christ Jesus because of God. Yahshua has

become our wisdom sent from God, our righteousness, our holiness, and our

ransom from sin, 1Cor 1:30. For He made the One who knew no sin to be sin for

us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him, 2Cor 5:21.

Introducing a Righteous Priesthood: A Covenant with the Descendants of Zadok

An unknown prophet came prophesying to Eli that YHWH is going to institute a

new Priesthood. But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do

according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring

house, and he will walk before My anointed always, (1Sam 2:35). This is an

amazing prophecy! YHWH is replacing the unfaithful priesthood; prophesying the

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constitution of an Eternal priesthood, which will endure until the return of

Moshiach. This prophecy pertains to David’s offspring; the Royal bloodline of

Yahshua – Who also officiates in the Office of the Righteous High Priest. He is in

the believers through His Spirit – and His Spirit calls every priest in the Renewed

Covenant to faithfulness and righteousness in following the example of Zadok.

During the reign of King David, there was a dual priesthood. Zadok and Abiathar

fulfilled this prophecy to the letter. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with

you there? Zadok in Hebrew is tsadog meaning one proved righteous; and

Abiathar meaning at peace with the Lord who is God. These two priests represent

the two priesthoods mentioned by the unknown prophet - one with the spirit of

Eli, the other, a ministry unto the Lord. Abiathar, King David’s other priest had in

him the seed of Eli! The lazy, indulgent, weak spirit of Eli laid dormant in his soul.

It happened just as the man of God prophesied to Eli - that at the very peak of his

usefulness, at the peak of God’s blessing, he would fall. His inner weakness would

be exposed: he would go so far and then stop short of God’s glory. Abiathar’

heart was not right with God, 2 Sam 15:35. . . . also Zadok a young man mighty

of valour, and of his fathers house twenty two Captains, 1Chr 12:1,22,28.

Zadok and his entire house rejected the rebellious Saul and gave their hearts and

allegiance to David. Not once did he ever look back. He proved to be righteous

because he proved to be faithful! He was there when David needed him! In

addition, whilst so many others were being enticed away to follow the rebellious

Absalom, Zadok remained faithful through it all. Because of this faithfulness,

YHWH made an Eternal Covenant with him. The Zadokite Priesthood is appointed

to promote the ministry excellence and reconciliation.

Controversial End-time Changes to Unfaithful Priesthood

A curse is declared upon one priesthood, referring to the unfaithful Abiathar -

and a blessing is conferred upon the prophesied forthcoming “of an enduring"

holy-remnant priesthood. Eli represents a cursed priesthood, a priesthood of self-

centred servants of God. They are called priests, but lightly esteem the work of

God. They do not submit the ministry of correction. Their spiritual children

become wicked because of their lazy life-styles and their refusal to cry out

against sin. They make themselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My

(God’s) people. When one compares this Scripture to the conduct of the modern

day Westernised Church, the researcher is of the opinion that the Church is

functioning under a curse, because sin, anti-Semitism and greed.

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If YHWH could curse the household of Eli, then the words of the Apostle Peter

takes on a solemn warning to the 21st

century Church because the time has come

to begin the judgment from the house of God; and if firstly from us, what will be

the end of the ones disobeying the gospel of God, 1Pet 4:17. The prophecy in Mal

3:5 is soon to be fulfilled as it is an end-time prophecy! And I will come near to

you for judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against

the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who extort

from the hired labourer's pay; and turning away the widow, and the fatherless,

and the alien (xenophobia), and not fearing Me, says YHWH Elohim. Therefore, if

a Priest, under the Old Covenant Law is cursed for condoning sin, how much

more does YHWH expect of His set-apart priests in the Renewed Covenant Era to

be blameless and faithful; He is a righteous God and will not change.

Eli saw iniquity in his sons who brought a curse on themselves, and he did not

rebuke them, 1Sam 3:13. For this YHWH said, I am about to judge his house

forever. – And his house was judged! The glory of the Lord departed from Shiloh.

The ark was captured; Eli and his sons died. It is the opinion of the author that

this is (in comparison) the current status of the apostate Church - His Glory has

departed.

The following indicators confirm the coming judgement of the modern day

Church:

• Firstly, it is a weak priesthood. I will break your strength and the strength of

your fathers house;

• Secondly, it would continually fall short of God’s fullness. Even in times of

spiritual outpourings, this priesthood was doomed to come short of God’s

glory. And you will see the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all that I do

good for Israel. The researcher would like to add this comment: This is also

true in this modern era, where one see manifestations of His Spirit, only to

fade, once MAN has capitalised on it, specifically applying the example of

Todd Bentley, USA in 2008. Due to the sin he fell into, many people got hurt

in the Church, and rejected Christianity. The so-called covering of the Church

was revoked, but too late; and

• Thirdly, all in this kind of priesthood will fall in the prime of life - in the prime

of spiritual life and blessing - because of a flawed walk with God. And all the

increase of your house will die in the prime of life. Todd Bentley is in the

prime of his life and in need of repentance;

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• Fourthly, this powerless, weak, flawed, self-centred priesthood would

continue indefinitely. It is still in office today, to minister in the iron and clay

period! Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar. In line with

the Daniel prophecy, You also saw that the iron was mixed with the clay. This

means that the rulers of that empire will try to unite their families by

intermarriage, but they will not be able to, any more than iron can mix with

clay. This is in line with current world trend to promote mixed marriages.

One just has to watch the reality TV programs to know that such a marriage

is doomed. While you were looking at it, a great stone broke loose from a

cliff without anyone touching it, struck the iron and clay feet of the statue,

and shattered them, Dan 2:34.

Due to the compromise and liberalism of the last days (iron and clay, good

and evil), there are priests who will be accommodating such people. Paul

said, The time will come when people will not listen to sound doctrine, but

will follow their own desires and will collect for themselves more and more

teachers who will tell them what they are itching to hear. They will turn

away from listening to the truth and give their attention to legends, 2Tim 4:3,

4. This paves the way for an end-time “accommodating believe system” that

is not in line with the Word – paving the way for the anti-Christ.

Ezekiel Warns the Apostate Priesthood of the End-time

The Curse of the House of Eli was released upon a corrupt Harlot Church and her

idolatrous shepherds! The following verse clearly defines Harlot Church: And you

shall say to the rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God,

Enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel, when you brought in

foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My

sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food the fat and

the blood; for they made My covenant void - this in addition to all your

abominations, Eze 44:6-7.

The above Scripture states that the House of God full of abominations - so

appalling that YHWH declares: Enough, these half-converted, worldly, corrupt, so-

called believers have no place in My house! They had polluted His sanctuary with

ungodly worshipers. They have a form of godliness, but no power nor holiness.

The worst punishment, the most horrible shame upon a man or woman of God, is

to minister in the flesh with no anointing. The glory has departed, their message

is chaff and His holy Presence has gone from them. Yet - men appoint them to

minister to the house which is abandoned by Elohim. Think of it - appointed as

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ministers to a house of rebellious children, even though they are idolaters; a

Harlot Church incorporating pagan worship to the Apostolic Church.

Conclusion on Priesthood

Every discerning believer can assess their current position in the world and see

that the above mentioned behaviour has become a daily occurrence, and an

absolute confirmation that the Church is in perilous times - a serious wake-up

call to the apostate Church! Without the anointing and manifest Presence of the

Ruach HaKodesh, the end-time Priesthood and believers will surely perish.

Jew and Gentile alike have encountered the above-mentioned type of person,

within in and without the Church. This type of behaviour is inherent to mankind

as Yahshua said from the heart, these things come. When one is committed to

the renewal process as done through the washing of the Word by the indwelling

power of the Ruach HaKodesh, this behaviour is corrected. It is a daily practice to

deny oneself, to say no to oneself. If one is not the perpetrator of such

behaviour, then you are on the receiving end of it and a victim of an ungodly man

or woman; and the reason why Jew and Gentile alike need to understand the

concept of being Hidden with Christ in YHWH! Perilous times are coming on the

earth, and it is no longer the time to hide behind the phrase; I have been hurt in

the Church or by a Christian, and then nurses a victim mentality, no, the time has

come to rule in this live by one, and His is Yahshua HaMashiach, Rom 5:17.

YHWH’S FEASTS NEGLECTED BY THE WESTERNISED CHURCH

Except, the end is not yet, and the believers are not exempt from the following;

they have neglected not only the Priesthood, but also meeting times with YHWH.

Times that He linked to the Words Eternal or Everlasting Statutes and is called His

Feasts.

As already established, there is a Hebraic (Jewish) mindset versus a Westernised

mindset, and therefore, when you begin to explore the next Root of the Christian

faith, it will inevitably lead one to its origin, Judaism. The derivation of this Root

is His Feasts, which He labelled Everlasting or Eternal Statutes; three Feasts so

important to YHWH that He stipulated that participation and attendance is

compulsory or one will be cut of – from the blessings, etc. Three times in the year

all your males shall appear before the Lord God, Exo 23:14-17. In all there are

seven Feasts. The Hebrew word chag (feast) is employed only in reference to

these three festivals: Passover (Pesach), Pentecost (Shavuot), and Tabernacles

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(Sukkot). Originally, these Feasts were named Unleavened Bread, Harvest, and

Ingathering, respectively. During the Millennial Reign of Yahshua, these Feasts

will be celebrated again; the non-participants will not receive rain!

Garr, Our Lost Legacy, aligning the Feasts of YHWH with the Hebraic Root

perspective said, “The three Feasts of YHWH have often been termed Jewish

festivals; however, this is a misnomer. The Ownership of the feasts is clear. They

are not Jewish feasts; they are YHWH’s feasts. The feasts of the Lord, which you

shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my feasts, Lev 23:2. The church

has implemented the terminology Jewish festivals as a means of relegating these

feasts to inferior status and of relative insignificance. The truth is that they are

Elohim’s feasts for the Jew first and then the Greek. In reality, YHWH in His divine

wisdom instructed both Households that these festivals are for both Jew and

non-Jew, and are to be celebrated jointly with each other, Deu 16:10-16. The

Hebrew word Ger translated in English as the stranger refers to the non-Jew

(Bible-believing Gentile) who has joined himself to the Jewish people.

Therefore, the Lord is the Host of the festivals, and all observant believers are His

invited guests. Who can refrain from attending a Feast by Personal invitation?

In the Messianic Theocratic Era, the nations will obligated to go up to Jerusalem

to participate, And it shall be, everyone who is left from all the nations which

came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King,

Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be, whoever

will not go up from the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King,

Jehovah of Hosts, there shall even be no rain on them, Zec 14:16, 17.

The Scriptural Meaning of the Word Feast

Eddy Chummney, The Seven Festivals of the Messiah, explains it as follows: These

two important Hebrew words appear in Leviticus chapter 23, and each word is

translated as feast in English. In verse 2, the word for feast is the Hebrew word

mo'ed, as it is written, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,

concerning the feasts [mo'ed] of the Lord.... The word mo'ed means an

appointment, a fixed time or season, a cycle or year, an assembly, an appointed

time, a set time or an exact time. By understanding the Hebrew meaning of the

English word feast, one can see that God is telling all that He is ordaining a set or

exact time or an appointed time when He has an appointment with humanity to

fulfil certain events in the redemption plan. In fact, Yahshua came to earth at the

exact time as ordained by YHWH, (Gal 4:2,4). He has an exact time or set

appointment when, in the future, He will judge the world, Act 17:31. Rashi

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comments as follows: Designate the [times] of the festivals so that [all of] Israel

will become accustomed to them.

The Hebrew word chag, which means a festival, is derived from the Hebrew root

word chagag, which means, to move in a circle, to march in a sacred procession,

to celebrate, dance, to hold a solemn feast or holiday. By this, one can see that

God gave the festivals as cycles (patterns) to be observed yearly, and by doing

them, one can understand God's redemptive plan for the world; the role that the

Messiah would play in that redemption; and ones personal relationship to God

concerning how one grows from a baby Bible believer to a mature Bible believer.

Although YHWH gave the festivals for all to observe, He never gave the festivals

so that one would obtain salvation by observing them, because salvation only

comes by faith (emunah). However, YHWH did give the festivals as prophetic

shadows and examples for teaching and instructing His people concerning His

plan of redemption and their personal relationship to Him, 1Cor 10:1-6, 11 and

the Shadows are to be perfected in Yahshua.

Jerusalem, the Time and Venue, Appointed by YHWH

Of all the elements of the Scriptural System pertaining to praise, worship, and the

Feasts, the vast majority of the Christian community has greatly neglected God’s

liturgical calendar. While some elements of Biblical Judaism have been

maintained (bible readings, tithing, and offerings), in most Christian churches

twenty centuries of gentile (church) tradition have so obscured the ordained

calendar for Feasts which YHWH gave to his people to observe, that they suffer

total lack of knowledge. Prof Liebenberg wrote an excellent booklet: Which is the

correct calendar: the Pagan one the Western world uses or the Biblical one?

(www.hrti.co.za). The Feasts are not only to be observed at God's appointed

times, but also to be observed at His appointed place. God said that He would

choose a place, and it would be a set place where His redemptive plan would be

accomplished. YHWH Himself left little doubt that His people throughout their

generations would observe His memorial days forever. Bible believers should

certainly be searching the Scriptures to discover the timing of His memorial days

as well as the proper method of observing the appointed feasts:

• The Timing: Designate the [times] of the festivals so that [all of] Israel will

become accustomed to them. It is nothing short of amazing that people in

today’s world who are so conscious of time and appointments should ignore

and even disdain appointments which YHWH, Himself, has set. If one were

granted an opportunity to meet a monarch, president, or prime minister of a

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nation, he would make extensive preparations to ensure that he was

prepared and on time. How much more important is Elohim, the Creator of

the universe, than a temporal political figure! Should not believers exercise

as much caution and excellence in meeting with God at the times that He has

charted on his appointment calendar? If man’s evaluation of God’s calendar

relegates it to relative insignificance, YHWH’s intention concerning it was

perfectly clear at the time at which he implemented it among his people: So

this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the

Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an

everlasting ordinance, Exo 12:14.

• The Venue: Passover (Pesach), the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost (Shavuot),

and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) were to be observed at an appointed

place, Deu 16:2,6,9-11, 13-16. This place was Jerusalem, 2Kin 21:4. From this

one can see that Jerusalem was appointed by YHWH to be the place where

important events, surrounding His redemptive plan, would be accomplished.

Yahshua died, was buried, and resurrected in Jerusalem. The empowering of

the believers by the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) took place in Jerusalem.

Yahshua will return and set His foot on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Zec

14:4. Jerusalem will be the center of world attention and controversy before

the coming of the Messiah, Zec 12:2-3; 14:2-4. He will rule and reign from

Mount Zion in the Messianic Era.

The Feast of Shavuot evolve into an interminable Pentecost

You need to understand that research is a process of elimination, and whatever

remains is the truth. To facilitate progressive revelation, or Biblical Continuity – is

the process of YHWH teaching and disclosing His concepts in a gradual and

deliberate manner – allowing for growth and maturity in the searcher of Truth.

Many Messianic scholars, i.e. Dr Bennie Kleynhans (Sr.), Prof Wimpie Liebenberg

(Messianic Shavuot guide / Haggadah), Eddy Chummney, John Garr, et al, have

researched the value and impact of His Feasts on the Messianic believers and

their research (serving as guidelines), has greatly benefited the Hebraic Root

Movement and will eventually impact on all Believers.

The Feast of Shavuot has direct relevance on the Ruach HaKodesh and from this

perspective; research was conducted to investigate the possibility that the

neglect of this Eternal Statute could be one of the primary reasons for the

withdrawal of the Ruach from the Church and thus the Apostate condition and

powerlessness of the modern day Church. For the authentic believer to embark

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of this journey to rediscover ones Hebraic Roots is one of the most rewarding

journeys one will ever undertake, as it becomes the highway to establish one’s

identity in Yahshua, and know intimately, the heart of the Father.

The Feasts demonstrate the pattern of how these Feasts are celebrated in

heaven, as Yahshua prayed ABBA’s will must be done on earth as in Heaven, Heb

8:1-2,5; 9:8-9,23; Exo 25:8-9,40; 26:30; Num 8:4; Eze 43:1-6,10-12. Therefore, if

the Feast of Shavuot were a Shadow signifying the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,

and if the believer has an active vibrant relationship with Him, is it not fair to

expect the Believers to honour the Feast that forever earmarked the Spirit-filled

believer as the carrier of His Glory? The Passover Feast, after a time-period of

fifty days named, counting the Omer, culminates in the Feast of Shavuot. When

the fiftieth day of counting arrives, the Israelis decorate their synagogues and

homes with trees, plants and flowers, in commemoration of the first fruits which

they were commanded to bring as an offering unto YHWH.

The Jewish people call this day Shavuot or Festival of Weeks because it comes

seven weeks after Passover. They are reminded on that day the issuing of the

Torah in the desert, which were given to Moshe fifty days after the Passover

lamb was slain for their redemption from Egypt and slavery, and that they had

crossed the Red Sea. This day is also named the Day of giving the Law. Since the

Jews feel that Israel was established as a nation on Shavuot, it is custom among

Jewry to accept formally young men and women as active members of their faith.

The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of YHWH your

God, Exo 23:19. With the intention of blessing His people, YHWH commanded

they should go three times a year to Jerusalem to celebrate the festivals of

Passover (Pesach), Pentecost (Shavuot), and Tabernacles (Sukkot). All three of

these festivals are agricultural harvest festivals. Passover (Pesach) is the barley

harvest. Pentecost (Shavuot) is the wheat harvest. Both festivals are first fruits

harvests before the final harvest that was to come at the end of the year during

the festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot), which is the fruit harvest. On the morning

after the first day of Passover the High Priest in Israel was commanded to bring a

sheaf (Omer) of first fruits and wave it back and forth (Violent shaking) in the

Temple before El Shaddai – prophesying the Resurrection of the Messiah!

Josephus, Edersheim, and the Mishnah teach that the sheaf of barley harvest was

marked out by three (3) men after sunset on Nisan 14, which was the beginning

of Nisan 15. They cut down the sheaf and brought it to the Temple to lay it

before the Lord after they had dried it by fire. There it rested on the Sabbath day

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and the morning after the Sabbath the priest would wave the sheaf before El-

Shaddai and begin to count the days to Pentecost. This is the shadow; what is

the Perfect or illumination or typology, that are applicable to the believer of

today?

The cut down Sheaf is Messiah Yahshua, who was cut down from human life in

the field of the world. The Sheaf presented before YHWH after the testing of fire

and resting in the Temple on the Sabbath is Messiah, Who, after being cut down

was prepared for the burial and whose body rested on the Sabbath in the tomb.

The Sheaf that was waved on high back and forth before El-Shaddai on the

Sabbath is Messiah, Who arose from death on the first day of the week. He is the

first fruits of the Resurrection, 1Cor 15:23. The violent shaking of the Sheaf is

equated with the earthquake that YHWH, through His Holy Ruach power opened

the tomb that could not hold the King of Kings – as He became the first-born

from the dead.

See the Perfect harvest:

• The firstborn of both man and beast were sanctified and presented before

YHWH as first fruits to Him, Exo 13:2; 22:29. Yahshua presented Himself to

YHWH, with His sacrificial blood.

• The first fruits the farmers were presented to YHWH at His altar in praise and

thanksgiving, Deu 26:1-11.

• Yahshua celebrated the festival of First Fruits by offering Himself as the first

fruits to all future generations, Mat 27:52-53.

• Yahshua is the firstborn of Mary, Mat 1:23-25.

• Yahshua is the first-begotten of YHWH, the Father, Heb 1:6.

• Yahshua is the firstborn of every creature, Col 1:15.

• Yahshua is the first-begotten from the dead, Rev 1:5.

• Yahshua is the firstborn of many brethren, Rom 8:29.

• Yahshua is the first fruits of the resurrected ones, 1Cor 15:20,23.

• Yahshua is the beginning of the creation of YHWH, Rev 3:14.

Yahshua speaking: Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the

ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is

buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over, Joh 12:24. As the First

Fruit of many, every believer in Him is part of the harvest – and believers need to

reproduce the same seed by winning souls (reproduce many times over)! ABBA

desired to indwell each of His Children and Yahshua became the Legal Access by

paving the way to come in the form of man, die on a cross and legally give Elohim

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access to his children. The Father through the Ruach HaKodesh indwelt the body

of Messiah, and this indwelling Presence is for each who hunger after His

Righteousness. As there are so many similarities between Yahshua and Moshe,

one can only marvel at the prophetic action As Moses lifted up the bronze snake

on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that

everyone who believes in him may have eternal life Joh 3:14, 15. And I, if and

when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw and attract all men

[Gentiles as well as Jews] to Myself, Joh 12:32.

On that stake (cross), whilst being crucified and lifted up, He was initiating an

extraordinary, Supernatural process, thus when one of the soldiers stabbed him

in the side with his spear. Blood and water gushed out, Joh 19:34. In that glorious

life-changing moment Yahshua birthed His first fruits – the Body - on the cross!

Fifty days after this birthing, during the Feast of Shavuot, He endued the Body of

Believers with Supernatural Ruach HaKodesh power and gifts; gifts to move in the

supernatural.

On Shavuot, in Israel, in Jerusalem, in the Temple, on the Sabbath, on Torah

observant Jewish men and women, the living YHWH, chose to pour out His Holy

Spirit. The subsequent rejection of the Torah based lifestyle by Gentile believers

robbed the Church of His and their Supernatural power. Torah is a lifestyle of

Holiness and consecration and not just a set of rules. The Torah contains 613

laws pertaining to all spheres of live; and likewise, there are1050 laws in the

Renewed Covenant (they address the Believers behaviour only, whereas the

Torah covers the whole spectrum), as documented in the Dakes Annotated Bible.

The lifestyle one lives is a choice, but do allow the Sprit of the living God to live in

a person to His Glory and honour. The first Apostolic Holy Spirit empowered

Church was persecuted, murdered and martyred. Jewish men and women gave

their lives in order for the Gentile nations to receive the Gospel and indwelling

Ruach HaKodesh. Once again, Believers are facing perilous times; without the

empowerment of the Rauch, the Spiritual battle will be lost.

More on His Feasts: Weekly Reminder of His Mercy: Sabbath

As YHWH’s Shavuot feast is an annual reminder of His mercy so is the Sabbath a

weekly reminder of His mercy; for one to rest after a week’s hard work, is mercy;

a time of compulsory rest for the family, whilst Elohim restores the body. In a

previous study, (The Conditions and Criteria contained in The Torah for restoring

YHWH’s Presence, Covenant Blessings and divine Health), the author has done

extensive research into the Sabbath Observance of Yahshua, his family and

Apostles. One of the conclusions was that the Sabbath is not only an Eternal

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Statute, but it also forms part of the Ten Commandments. Nominal Christians,

traditionally, do not observe the Sabbath as they regard Sunday as the day of

rest. The Sabbath is the Lord’s Day, not Sunday, as Yahshua declared Himself

Lord of the Shabbat. There is no reference in the Renewed Covenant of the

apostles, or anyone else, switching to Sunday as the new Shabbat.

Mr Friedman, They loved the Torah, Chapter 2, p9, said Central to showing

Yahshua’s Torah observant life is an understanding of his Torah observance in the

Renewed Covenant of the Sabbath. Sabbath observance was considered a prime

duty and crucial Mitzvah in the Second Temple era. The evidence from the

Scriptures clearly indicates that Yahshua kept the Sabbath (Mat 5:17-20; Luk

4:16–22, 31). The question would now be in what manner did he keep the

Sabbath? One is aware that the Messiah had differences with several of the

Pharisees and other religious leaders of His time, because, according to them, he

did not keep the traditions of the Sabbath, according to their Rabbinical tradition,

and Oral Law or Talmud.

When studying the following the Scriptural references (Mat 12:9, Mar 1:21; 6:2,

Luk 4:16, 31; 6:6, 13:10, 14:1; Joh 5:1-6 and Joh 9), and the narratives contained

therein, Yahshua clearly taught on the Sabbath, observing the day according to

YHWH’s instructions and local custom. It was His practice to teach the Jews on

the Sabbath. A person needs to pay attention to this fact; after the official

ending of the Sabbath, the sick were brought to him. One can confirm this from

the Scriptures as the Word state that they transported and brought the ailing to

Him in the evening; in keeping with the custom that one is only to travel a certain

distance on the Sabbath, thus avoiding desecrating the Sabbath by carrying a

bed, an act which was forbidden, regarding this as work on the Sabbath.

The Jews were challenging Him to see whether He would authorise and allow

transportation of the ailing on the Sabbath. Yahshua did not refrain from

teaching the Hebrews the correct way of living the Sabbath with its requirements

and priorities. He did, however, answer them with the following: For the Son of

Man is Lord of the Sabbath, Mat 12:8. Joseph Jacobs, Jesus of Nazareth in History,

and Jewish Encyclopaedia, states: “Yahshua taught during a time of flux and

transition, of various developing and occasionally conflicting interpretations of

the Torah. In taking advantage of this liberty in interpretation, He nevertheless

remained fully Jewish. For example, He accepted the laws concerning the

Sabbath, but differed in the exegesis of those laws concerning certain conditions

which justify its suspension”. The Messiah was a Torah observant Hebrew man;

otherwise, the Sadducees would never have accepted His teachings. Messiah had

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only the Torah and Tanakh to teach from; He was still making history and

revealing the will of YHWH.

The author believes that the reader already made the following conclusion:

observing the Sabbath is of utmost importance to YHWH. Nevertheless, despite

the consequences for them, many may well say they are now no longer under the

Law, but under Grace. This brings one to the unmistakable conclusion that

defining the concepts of Law and Grace are called for. Therefore, the reader is

referred to booklets of Prof W A Liebenberg, The True Doctrine of Law and Grace

unfolded and Messianic Shabbat Hagadah, www.hrti.co.za). The booklets address

the Sabbath, Law and Grace, from a Hebraic perspective.

Due to lack of knowledge, mentioning the word Torah may evoke negative

emotions in Believers, as they are unacquainted of the actual value of the Torah

and has no in-depth knowledge of their Hebraic roots. In order to enhance this

research on the Sabbath, and to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that Torah

observance, with relationship, are the keys to His manifest Presence, the

introductory Scripture to this chapter needs to be prayed, that the Spirit of

Revelation will remove the veil!

Indisputable - The Sabbath will be celebrated during His Messianic Rule on

earth

During the 1000 year Messianic Age, Zec 14:16 state that Elohim will require of

the nations to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Elohim will require all flesh to keep

the Sabbath and new moon during this time – culminating in the restoration of

the New Heaven and New earth. For as the new heavens and the new earth,

which I will make...saith the Lord...and it shall come to pass that from one new

moon to another and from One Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to

worship before me, saith the Lord, Isa 66:22-23. The logical conclusion is that the

Scriptural principle of first the Jew and then the Greek will be observing the

Sabbath, new moon, and Feasts for all eternity. Therefore, YHWH has not done

away with His Feasts or Sabbath observance; in fact, there is no Scripture

available which states that He has revoked the Eternal Statute of Sabbath

observance - as re-instated in the Sinai desert, confirming the importance of His

Sabbaths. YHWH even determines when the Sabbath should start: Let this be a

Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth

day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept,

Lev 23:32. As soon as He creates the New Heaven and the New Earth, all souls

will observe the Sabbath.

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Incur a Blessing by calling the Sabbath a Delight

It would be inconsistent of the Living God to withdraw or revoke this blessing; it

would mean that many Scriptures would have to be replaced. . . . If you call the

Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honourable, and if you honour it by not

going you own way, and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you

will find your JOY in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the

land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord

has spoken, Isa 58:13. YHWH is in Restoration and Reconciliation, uniting His

people, through the obedience to the concepts and principles as outlined in His

Word.

NOT YET DONE ON HEBRAIC ROOTS – THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES

This book is Divinely ordained. The Holy One of Israel not only gave each topic

for research, it was to be conducted in a specific order. Every singe topic as

mentioned in the above, are the reasons that He gave for the falling away and

apathy of the Church. However, there is a final cause for the apathy in the

Church that needed to be researched and the topic on His Names, takes

precedence over all others – the sin perpetrated against the name of the living

God. For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it [I refrain and do not utterly

destroy you]; for why should I permit My name to be polluted and profaned

[which it would be if the Lord completely destroyed His chosen people]? And I will

not give My glory to another [by permitting the worshipers of idols to triumph

over you] Isa 48:11. His Name is polluted by the Jew first, and then the Greek and

all are guilty, for their own reasons.

The modern day believers are programmed to think of only Father, Son and Holy

Spirit. The possibility that the living God, YHWH, could manifest His Presence

under another name is foreign to them. To substantiate the statement that He

has other names in which He chooses to manifest His Presence, one just has to

consider some of them (Hebraic mindset):

• YHWH-Roi = The Lord is my Shepherd

• YHWH-Yireh = The Lord will provide

• YHWH-Shalom = He leadeth me beside still waters; the Lord is peace

• YHWH-Ropheka = The Lord is Healer

• YHWH-Shammah = The Lord is present

• YHWH-Nissi = The Lord my miracle

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Substituting His Name with man-made names

Did YHWH authorise the substitution of His Name with something else? Is He

consistent with His people to honour and use His Name? Moses struggled with

the same problem, considering that the Hebrews did not use His Name for 430

years. The Israelites understood the Name El-Shaddai, but had no revelation of

His name, YHWH. For hundreds of years, whilst in slavery, they were exposed to

the names of the Egyptian Pharaohs’ idol god's and magicians, the Pharaoh

himself being regarded as a divine being. That is also the reason why the

Pharaoh asked Moses what is His Name, he really did not know!

And Moses said to God, "Behold I come to the children of Israel, and I say to them,

The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me what is His

Name? What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, Ehyeh asher ehyeh (I will be

what I will be), and He said, So shall you say to the children of Israel, Ehyeh (I will

be) has sent me to you. And God said further to Moses, “so shall you say to the

children of Israel, YHWH Elohim the God of your forefathers, the Elohim of

Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you. This Is

My Name Forever (this is My Namele-olam-va-ed, and this is My memorial to all

Name to all generations), and this is how I should be mentioned in Every

Generation. King David declares, “O YHWH, Your name is forever; O YHWH, the

Mention of Your Name is for every generation, Exo 3:15 and Ps. 135:13.

If YHWH, Himself, has declared His Name publicly, which person has the right to

change, substitute or discontinue the Name of the living God? The Jews

substituted His Name with HaShem (The Name) or Adonai; and the Greek used

Kurios, whilst the British translated it Jehovah or Lord or utilised His title, God.

To this day, one will find people continuing to replace His Name with Hebrew

titles such as HaShem and Adonai. They may sound accurate, because they are

Hebrew words, however, not Scriptural, and most definitely incorrect when

utilised to replace the authentic Name of the Almighty. How can one then exalt

or esteem His Name if one does not know the value of it? Alternatively, do they

know that each of His Names links Him to a different area in a person’s life?

Once again, translation was a problem; His names were translated, not

transliterated, in so doing changing the meaning and value of the Eternal Name!

Todd Bennet (paraphrased): expounding on this theme (proving how easy it is to

forget a person’s name) with the following scenario: Day 1: “Good morning, Mr

Smith and good morning Mrs Smith”. By Day 5: “Good morning Mr and Mrs

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Smith”, By day 20, “Good morning, good morning duh?” By end of year, “Good

morning – who are they again”? What has this narrative to do with the Names of

YHWH? During a visit to Israel the Rabbis submitted truly thought provoking

confrontational questions; did we change your name when you arrived in Israel?

“No”. Then why did you Westerners change the Name of your So-called Saviour,

Jesus? Followed by an even more bewildering assertion: In all the years of its

existence, we, the Jewish nation, never had a person born to us with the name

Jesus, as we do not have the letter “J” in the Hebrew Aleph Beit, or Alphabet!

Todd Bennet, Names. The Father, the Son and the Importance of Names in the

Scriptures (2009), made this statement on the pronunciation of the Name

Jehovah, another substitute: “The most traditional and popular pronunciation in

Christianity is: Jehovah. Often the name Jehovah is used to pronounce the Name

of YHWH by translating the Tetragrammaton as JHVH and inserting the vowels

from Adonai”. (Tetragrammaton is a Greek term meaning “the word of four

letters”. His name YHWH is used approximately 6,823 times in the Hebrew Old

Testament). The Christian translators’ ignorance of Hebrew failed to alert them

that the “vowel points” (Hebrew alphabet) placed beneath the name were to cue

the reader not to pronounce it, but to say Adonai instead. Petrus Galatinus is the

person who gave the hybrid word, Jehovah. One can easily find that the letter “J”

did not even exist on the planet until 1520CE. The letter is less than 500 years

old! “J” came from the letter YOD in Hebrew, and was brought into Greek with

the letter “IOTA, or English letter “I” since they had no “Y”. The Third

commandment was not instituted to abolish the usage of His Name; it was to

regulate the proper usage of His Holy Name.

Gradually, customs developed that put a tail on the letter “I” when it began a

sentence, or was used as the first letter of a proper name. Both the Universal

Jewish Encyclopaedia and the Jewish Encyclopaedia indicate that “Jehovah” is

not a word at all. In fact, the name is a philological impossibility. Despite its

popularity, it is a man made word added to the Word negating the instruction

not to add! Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you

shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it, Deu 12:32; Deu 4:1,2; Pro 30:6; Rev

22:18,19.

It is no incident that the Pharisees linked His Name to idols. The word lord

(according to Matthew) is the name of an idol-god, Baal or Beelzebub; lord of the

dung! Therefore, Jew and Christian alike desecrate (profane) His Holy Name,

lowering it to the level of idol worshippers, by calling Him lord. The Word says "If

you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples, you will know the truth, and

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the truth will set you free," Joh 8:31, 32. Understanding and acting upon the

Truth concerning the Name of YHWH will set one free.

Inaccurately utilising the Holy Name incurs The Curse

This total dishonour and disregard for His Names, compelled YHWH to be Who

He is (Righteous and Just), and to honour His Word by activating The Curse: If you

will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to My name, says the

Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings;

yes, I have already turned them to curses because you do not lay it to heart, Mal

2:2. This Curse is well-defined in Deu 28, and by studying the contents and

context of The Curse, you will find every single one present, in different levels in

the lives of the Jew first, then the Greek! Seen within the framework of this

research, it is the most compelling reason for the apostate Church and the

disgrace of the Israeli nation, per sé. The Two Houses cannot unify with this

infringement of His Names staring them in the face.

Yahshua speaking, Not everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, will enter the

kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.

Many will say to Me on that day, Mater, Master, have we not prophesied In Your

Name and driven out Demons In Your Name and done many mighty works in

Your Name? And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you;

depart from Me, you who act wickedly (working Torahlessness by disregarding

My commands, Torah), Mat 7:21-23. Yahshua, by implication, is saying that no

person merely professing faith in Him and His atoning work will be saved, but he

that doeth the will (Torah) of My Father. Yahshua came in the Name of His

Father, YHWH. How else could the demons obey His commands? He did not say

in the name of the lord, as demonstrated in the above.

As Yahshua instructed the believers to use His Name, He had to have a specific

name under which to function, as the Word says He stood under the authority of

YHWH. But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man

is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ (LT). But I want you to

understand that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of a wife is

her husband, and the Head of the Messiah Is God, 1Cor 11:3 (CJB).

Therefore, if Messiah Yahshua revealed and utilised the correct Names of the

Father, it is time for the authentic Believers to obey and imitate Him by faith.

Yahshua set an example of submission to the authority of YHWH and His Word;

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He did not act on His own. Yahshua came in the Name of the Father, YHWH; He

most definitely did not perform any miracles in His own Name!

The Hebrew nation was bound by their traditions, and when Yahshua came to

this planet, He exposed their terrible bondage to traditions of men: He answered

them (with a question), "Why do you break the commandment of God because of

your traditions? Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of

God's Word”, Mat 15:3-6. The question to the modern day church would be, is

the Church operating in the same traditional spirit, destroying the authority of

His Word? The Pharisees saw that some of his disciples were unclean because

they ate without washing their hands. (The Pharisees, like all other Jewish

people, don't eat unless they have properly washed their hands. They follow the

traditions of their ancestors. When they come from the marketplace, they don't

eat unless they have washed first. They have been taught to follow many other

rules. For example, they must also wash their cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner

tables) The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples follow

the traditions taught by our Ancestors? Jesus told them, "Isaiah was right when

he prophesied about you hypocrites in Scripture: 'These people honour me with

their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of Me is pointless,

because their teachings are rules made by humans. "You abandon the

commandments of God to follow human traditions." He added, "You have no

trouble rejecting the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions!

Some of the Pharisees said, "The man who did this is not from God because he

doesn't follow the traditions for the day of worship (religious spirit)." Other

Pharisees asked, "How can a man who is a sinner perform miracles like these?"

Joh 9:16. The modern day Believer is encouraged to measure their usage of His

Names to the above human rules and traditions pertaining to the Names of

YHWH! Then measure your usage of His Names according to Scripture! Yahshua

said you will know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free; it is the Truth that

you understand, and act upon that sets you free!

The reader is encouraged under the unction of the Spirit of Revelation to insert

and substitute the word Torah, where they find the words Will of God or Laws or

commands, into some Scriptures as a test, and allow the veil to be lifted. Do note

that should one do this test the Scripture must be in context within a chapter and

paragraph. i.e. But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are

those who hear the word (Torah) of God and do it, Luk 8:21. Jesus replied,

Rather, how blessed are those who hear and obey God's word (Torah), Luk 11:28.

"Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of God's word

(Torah), Mar 7:13. From this perspective look at Dawid, Daniel and all the Tanakh

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prophets and consider that they had only the Torah to work from – once again

allow the veil to be lifted.

Not every Rabbi or Jew believes the Torah, they follow the letter of the Torah

because of tradition, and therefore there is a lack of relationship with the Elohim

of the Torah. This is the intimate relationship that authentic believers have with

the indwelling Messiah.

BACK TO REALITY: THE DRAMA OF THE END-TIME: SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Is the Church just apostate, apathetic, uninvolved and bound by traditions of

men? Is the fulfilment of the end-time prophecies regarding the Church at hand?

Is there an impending separation between the faithful Church and Priesthood?

Both the Apostles Peter and Paul were sounding end-time warnings to the end-

time believers who continue to follow human traditions and who are not walking

in the Truth. First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going

to have a heyday. Reducing everything to the level of their puny feelings, they'll

mock, So what's happened to the promise of his Coming? Our ancestors are dead

and buried, and everything's going on just as it has from the first day of creation.

Nothing's changed. They conveniently forget that long ago all the galaxies and

this very planet were brought into existence out of watery chaos by God's word.

Then God's word brought the chaos back in a flood that destroyed the world. The

current galaxies and earth are fuel for the final fire. God is poised, ready to speak

his word again, ready to give the signal for the judgment and destruction of the

desecrating sceptics. Don't overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day

is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn't late with his

promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you,

holding back the End because he doesn't want anyone lost. He's giving everyone

space and time to change, 2Pet 3:3-9, Message Bible.

The Apostle Paul forewarning of despicable human behaviour in the last days:

Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. People will be selfish,

greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their

parents, ungrateful, and irreligious; they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers,

violent, and fierce; they will hate the good; they will be treacherous, reckless, and

swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God; they will hold to the

outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such

people - people whose minds do not function and who are failures in the faith. But

they will not get very far, because everyone will see how stupid they are. But you

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have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have

observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions, and my

sufferings. Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will

be persecuted; and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to

worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves. But as for you, continue

in the truths that you were taught and firmly believe. You know who your

teachers were, and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have

known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to

salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful

for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for

right living, so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and

equipped to do every kind of good deed, 2Tim 3:1- 17. One can only consider this

self-explanatory word.

The New World Dis-order: The Known World on the Precipice

After outlining the Scriptural portrayal of humankind’s despicable end-time

behaviour, the researcher did not even touch on the world disorder! Nor will

she vent into the field of eschatology, as it is a specialist field of its own. The

researcher, at the commencement of the end-time topic intentionally did not

introduce the chaotic world disorder, as humanity’s sin is the root cause for the

disorder and impending judgement.

However, a few examples will be introduced in order to highlight the fact that

mankind is in the closing throes of this dispensation, and moving at lightning

speed towards the times that the Bible calls the “Beginning of Sorrow”. The Signs

of the Times are for all clearly visible, and are disturbingly similar those portrayed

and prophesied by Yahshua HaMashiach, Daniel, the Apostles, Paul and Peter.

“The end of Christian America” (or Africa, for that matter) headlined in the

Newsweek, a magazine’s report on the dramatic drop in the number of

Americans identifying themselves as Christians. Many conservative Christians

believe that they have lost the battle over issues such as abortion, school prayer

and even same-sex marriage, and that the country (including Africa) has now

entered a “Post-Christian” phase! (Rex Sexton, Journal: The Good News, July

2009). South Africa, a country renowned for the most liberal constitution in the

world has professors (i.e. George Claassen), vying for removal of Christianity from

schools - Rapport, 20 September 2009 under the Afrikaans heading, “Hare waai

oor skolegodsdiens” and “Nie almal is ten gunste van Bybel en gebed op skool.

Daar is ook ouers wat wou sien dat godsdiens in skole afgeskaal word”.

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Consequently, by removing Godly Spiritual Laws from the schools, is tantamount

to promoting more violence in schools and communities.

Humans blame other human beings for their problems. Nations tend to blame

other nations and/or Israel. Nevertheless, authentic Christians know that “we

are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil

rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of

dankness who rule this world, and against wicked spirits . . “. The human race,

as a whole, has no real comprehension of the spiritual forces arrayed against it.

It is, principally speaking of the invisible demonic realm, that has the power to

influence the minds of human beings; firstly, to contemplate and then commit

acts of supreme folly. A German word or terminology, sometimes used to

describe the intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era is Zeitgeist, which

literally means “the spirit of the time” or as biblically described the god of this

age is at work in this world in this century – driving the nations towards the

apocalypse – or drama of the end time.

Conclusion

The modern day Westernised Church has an obligation to research and return to

her Hebraic Root; the Author and Finisher of her faith. In returning to the

principles of the Word, by following it, there is a possibility to restore the Church

to her Hebraic Roots. What is the way forward since the causes of the apathy

and apostate position of the Church are identified? Can the Author and Finisher

of the believer’s faith demonstrate to the believer His method and methodology

to function as a believer?

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CHAPTERCHAPTERCHAPTERCHAPTER THREETHREETHREETHREE

THE RUACH HAKODESH RESUMES RESTORATION OF APOSTOLIC LEADERSHIP IN

THE 21ST

CENTURY HEBRAIC CHURCH

On completing your reading of Chapter Two, you might think if this is the status

of the Body Corporate in the 21st

century, what hope does one have to

contemplate the possibility of restoring the Ruach HaKodesh to His Rightful Place

in the life of the Believer or the Body Corporate, per sé? I specifically

concentrated on the Scriptures that address the behaviour patterns of this

terminal generation, prior to the return of Messiah to the earth. I intentionally

made no mention of current World affairs, as the purpose of Yahshua’s visit to

the earth was to reconcile man to YHWH, humanity who were, and are in need of

The Saviour.

As said in a previous chapter, I will treat you as the reader differently. I have

included you in every aspect of my research for this book, and would therefore,

discuss some of the processes I followed in order to gain my information. Once

again, we can only compliment the different authors who so graciously made

their priceless information available for this research. I have duly mentioned

their names, giving the credit and honour due to them as well as noted them in

the Bibliography of this book.

In this Chapter, I analysed the Perfect Model, Yahshua, in order to restore His

Apostolic Leadership in the Hebraic Church. Throughout the research and

authoring of this book, I have adopted the Comparative contextual analysis

methodology for comparative research approach – being the most applicable and

practical – for the benefit of the Truth Seeking reader.

This method was utilised in order to ensure that teachable believers will

understand that they are not coerced into becoming Jewish proselytes, or

converting to Judaism. They are encouraged to seek and live the criteria for His

manifest Presence, where the Holy Spirit audibly speaks into the lives of

believers; when they instantly obey Him. That each believer will understand that

delayed obedience to the Holy Ruach, is disobedience.

Prof Liebenberg, Study, the Highest form of Worship booklet had a profound

impact on me as a person. He wrote that we honour Elohim by studying His

Word and study in general; it elevates us to His level! His people are perishing for

a lack of Knowledge – Teach my people My Torah, especially those who came in

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from the Diaspora. This is an extremely long-term objective, but achievable

when one finds favour and stays focused on the calling. The command: Teach MY

people are directly for the Jewish nation and not for believers. Their framework

of reference differs too much from the Western mindset. It shall happen in the

latter days that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top

of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to

it. Many peoples shall go and say, Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh,

to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will

walk in his paths. For out of Zion the Law (Torah and instruction) shall go forth,

and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem, Isa 2:2,3. The Amplified Bible contains

119 references to teaching the Law or Torah! Should one wonder about the

tribes, the Torah teacher is one who has Levitical blood, and who has this love

and desires to teach the Torah. The Apostle Paul said that we are to study to

show ourselves approved.

The initiation of this research, (1997, not knowing it will eventually become part

of a thesis), was prompted by the lack of knowledge, the hunger for more of

YHWH in the hearts of people began to stir the desire to find the reason for this

emptiness and perceived absence of the Holy Spirit. It became apparent that the

reason was an unmet spiritual hunger that could not satisfied in normal religious

services. The sick were not healed, the bound not released, and eventually the

quests for answers became a research.

In order to create a Restored Apostolic Church that has a vibrant relationship

with the Ruach HaKodesh, one has to introduce Yahshua, the Apostle and Great

High Priest of the Messianic Faith or as the Greeks named it, the Christian faith.

One has to analyse His ministry, His relationship with Abba Father, His

relationship with the Rauch HaKodesh, His functioning in the five-fold ministry

with its appointed Offices, as well as the gifting of the Ruach HaKodesh. This

analysis was done from within framework of the Tanach and the Renewed

Covenant.

ANALYSIS OF YAHSHUA, THE HUMAN BEING

In order to understand many of Yahshua’s sayings, you need to look at the

language, the culture, and the customs of the first century in the regions of Judea

and the Galilee. As one cannot pretend to understand the early English of

beowulf in ninth century England; why does the believers claim to understand,

with their occidental minds, the significance of the oriental ideas expressed in

Yahshua’s words gleaned from tertiary translations of the writings of common tax

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collectors and fishermen and tentmakers? It is a common belief that the Greeks

wrote the entire New Testament. However, there are ancient sources that say

differently, and modern translation techniques confirm this.

The common language of the Jewish people in first-century Jerusalem was

Hebrew. True, after the Greeks, the Romans ruled, so undoubtedly Greek

rendered a strong classical and linguistic influence as Greek were the overall

world language then. Although Aramaic was the lingua franca (the common

language used in trade and commerce) in the entire Middle Eastern region at an

earlier period. During the first century, Hebrew was the primary language, both

written and spoken, in Judea, Samaria and the Galilee. Yahshua' teachings are

exclusively within Jewish values and teachings. Modern Christianity, of which

there are more than 21,000 differing strands, does not adhere to many of

Yahshua' original teachings, whilst Hebrew was an integral part of Judaism of the

period. Yahshua never intended either to abandon Judaism, or to create a new

religion.

To see the power and presence of YHWH in action, one need to re-introduce

Yahshua, as a man who lived and lives by the power of YHWH, Although he died

on the cross in weakness, he now lives by the mighty power of God. We, too, are

weak, but we live in him and have God's power-the power we use in dealing with

you, 2Cor 13:4. Believers need to see that Yahshua was a man on the earth, For

there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1Tim 2:5; and this Man could only function through the Power of the Ruach

HaKodesh.

The arrival of Yahshua on the earth signalled the beginning of a new era. YHWH

entered human history in a personal way, preparing human beings for His Eternal

indwelling in their Spirit. Hence, YHWH sends Yahshua to live on the earth, in the

form of man, and therefore He donned the flesh of man. He laid down His deity

in order to be like human race (spirit with flesh on), to be a High Priest Who can

have empathy with His children Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought

of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that

he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When

the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a

slave, Became Human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an

incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a

selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death - and the worst kind

of death at that: a crucifixion, Phi 2:5-8.

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The Law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put

into effect a different plan to save us. He Sent His Own Son In A Human Body like

ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his

Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the requirement of the law

would be fully accomplished for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but

instead follow the Spirit. Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think

about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about

things that please the Spirit. If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is

death. If the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace, Rom 8:3-6.

Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the

contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but

did not sin, Heb 4:15. Yet, Yahshua being the Great High Priest obeyed every

command of the very Torah that He gave to the Israelites in the desert. He

demonstrated obedience to every instruction of the Torah – He challenged the

Pharisees only on their man-made traditions or Oral Law – adding their

interpretation to it instead of staying in the Truth; they had the full Torah

revelation, Deu 4.

John, The Revelator exhorted the Believers as such, Beloved, do not believe every

spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; for many false prophets

have gone forth into the world. By this know the Spirit of God: every spirit which

confesses That Jesus Christ Has Come in the Flesh is from God. And every spirit

which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God;

and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now is already in the

world, 1Joh 4:1-3. Because many deceivers went out into the world, those not

confessing Jesus Christ to have come in the Flesh, this is the deceiver and the

antichrist, 2Joh 1:7; Joh 1:14 and 1Tim 3:16. Hence, when Yahshua walked the

earth, it was as a man, a human being. History has proved that as a mere man, He

performed no miracles. Only after His water baptism (or Mikvah) did the infilling

of the Holy Spirit follow - and only then did He begin to move in the Supernatural

Power of the Ruach HaKodesh.

Yahshua and the Mikvah – Water Baptism

The first documented public meeting between John the Baptist and Yahshua

were at the Yardin (Jordan) River, for His immersion (Mikvah) in water. When

one understands the Hebraic Root of an assisted baptism, one will appreciate

why Yochanan (John) refused to do it. Yahshua said to John, Permit it now: for it

is proper to fulfil all righteousness. What is Mikvah and is it important for the

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modern day believers? Baptism is really God predetermined, given to the

Hebrews in the Sinai desert. Long before John the Baptist came along and it is

most definitely not invented by the Pentecostals! The advent of Yahshua, setting

the New Covenant in motion by his death, cancelled the sacrificial ritual aspects

(sin) of the Mosaic Law, therefore are no longer technically binding. Yet,

knowledge of the rituals has spiritual value for the Gentile believer, and in order

to assist Gentile believers to understand how the Jewish family practiced water

baptism or Mikvah, one has to assess the Hebraic Roots thereof:

• John the Baptist did not invent the practice of water baptism. He was

overseeing centuries old, YHWH ordained, cleansing ritual that is as old as

the Law that God gave to Moses. Outlined in Leviticus are strict regulations

for washing after exposure to specified situations, which made a person

ritually unclean. Some details, such as the size of the ritual immersion bath

or Mikvah, are described in the Mishnah, commonly called the Oral Law,

(commentaries on the written Torah). For instance, the Mikvah must contain

at least 120 gallons of water. If it contains 120 gallons minus one spoonful, it

is not kosher (proper, right). It must be mayim chaim, "living water,"

(moving); preferably a stream or larger body of water, but Mikvehs were

constructed in almost every village, many using reservoirs for their water

supply.

• In light of the above, baptism is obviously by immersion. However, in

Judaism, no one ever immersed anyone else; baptism is self-administered.

The person being baptized enters the Mikvah, stands with feet apart, hands

out in front, fingers spread, eyes and mouth open, and dips him-/herself

under the water. Someone must verify that every hair goes completely

under; otherwise, the cleansing is not kosher. This is what John the Baptist

did and Yahshua understood this principle. If He set the example to the

Believers, how can they not, not obey and imitate Him by being baptised?

• Administering Mikvah (immersion, baptism) to new believers as a sign of

their trust in Yahshua as Messiah should be compulsory, as the Apostle Peter

has clearly indicated. Converting to the Messianic Jewish lifestyle (Simchah)

and community, and those who wish to re-affirm the Jewish/Hebrew roots of

their faith, should undergo the baptism publicly to demonstrate their faith.

• After the Mikvah they should take a Hebrew name and confess their place as

a part of the commonwealth of Israel – Jewish custom.

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• A private Mikvah (without an official), may be performed by those who view

themselves as being in need of the ceremonial cleansing specifically ordained

in the Torah.

• In any public Mikvah it is not necessary, nor Scripturally mandated, for the

official (John the Baptist or a pastor) to enter the water with the Mikvah

candidate. In fact, it is best if the entrant proceeds unaided and the official,

Rabbi, Pastor, acts as the official witness of the event.

Finally, one can argue that there are several ways for performing the baptism i.e.

sprinkling, etc. According to Archaeological excavations done in Jerusalem in

recent years, archaeologists have uncovered a complex of forty mikvehs at the

southern end of the Temple Mount which could easily have permitted the

immersion of 3,000 believers on the Day of Pentecost. Going under the water, is

the Torah approved way. If the Apostle Peter were not satisfied with the baptism

process on that day, he had enough boldness to stop the whole process. Once

again, man and tradition blinded believers from the truth.

Yahshua is Spirit Filled

As soon as Jesus was immersed, he came up out of the water. Then heaven was

opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of Elohim which was descending like a dove

and it came upon him, Mat 3:16, coming out of the water into a new life, the

Spirit filling Him for all eternity. Indwelling not only Him, but also filling all who

desire to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit baptism of

Yahshua is the fulfilment of a Tanach prophecy. There are many Scriptures

prophesying that the Messiah will be Spirit filled, and they are:

• Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, the one I love, and with whom I am

pleased. I will send My Spirit upon him, and he will announce my judgment

to the nations, Isa 42:1.

• The royal line of David is like a tree that has been cut down; but just as new

branches sprout from a stump, so a new king will arise from among David's

descendants. The Spirit of the Lord will give him wisdom and the knowledge

and find pleasure in obeying him. He will not judge by appearance or

hearsay; he will judge the poor fairly and defend the rights of the helpless. At

his command the people will be punished, and evil persons will die. He will

rule his people with justice and integrity, Isa 11:1-5.

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• The Sovereign LORD has Filled Me with His Spirit. He has chosen me and sent

me to bring good news to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to announce

release to captives and freedom to those in prison. He has sent me to

proclaim that the time has come when The Lord will save his people and

defeat their enemies. He has sent me to comfort all who mourn, Isa 61:1,2.

This Supernatural power, after His Holy Spirit baptism was apparent for all to

see, and this very gift He gave to His followers, by enduing them with the

same Indwelling Presence, corresponding with prophesies in the Tanach;

fulfilled on the day of Pentecost or Feast of Shavuot; 50 days after His

ascension.

Measuring the Mature Believer against the Word

The Apostle Paul not only identified the Gifts of the Spirit, 1Cor 12; 14, he also

identified the Office of the mature Believer who has grown past the milk stage to

solids. The believer who has advanced into the full stature of Messiah, who,

through personal relationship also developed integrity, faith and obedience to

the standard of His Word. Those perfected by obedience, YHWH recommends

them for appointment to the different Offices, For [it is] not [the man] who

praises and commends himself who is and accepted, but [it is the person] whom

the YHWH accredits and commends, 2Cor 10:18, Act 20:28. But He confirming us

and anointing us with you in Messiah is YHWH, 2Cor 1:21. This is to continue until

all of us are united in our faith and in our knowledge about God's Son, until we

become mature, until we measure up to Christ, who is the Standard, Eph 4:13.

Once the mature believer achieve the set Standard and YHWH recommends

them, a person needs to identify their role in the Body of Christ, and measure

ones spiritual level against the Word as found in Eph 4:10-12. And He gave some

[to be] apostles, and some [to be] prophets, and some [to be] evangelists, and

some [to be] shepherds [or, pastors] and teachers, for the purpose of the

equipping of the holy ones for [the] work of service, for [the] building up [edifying]

of the body of Christ. Yahshua being the Head of the Church set the example to

the Body to imitate Him in the five-fold ministry or Offices.

ANALYSIS OF THE MAN YAHSHUA, WHO RECEIVED THE ALL ENCOMPASSING

FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY, INCLUDING HOLY SPIRIT GIFTS

It is necessary to see Yahshua in His role as a human, a man, totally dependant on

the Holy Spirit. It is, and was the Holy Spirit, Who endued Him with power to do

the miracles, You know about Jesus of Nazareth and how God poured out on him

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the Holy Spirit and power (ready for action). He went everywhere, doing good and

healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him, Act

10:38.

Empowered by the Holy Spirit, through unconditional obedience the following

Five-fold Ministries/Offices actively manifested in His life:

• Apostle;

• Prophet;

• Pastor/shepherd;

• Evangelist; and

• Teacher.

After His ascension, Yahshua proceeded to give the very same Gifts and

ministries to obedient followers for one reason only He did this to prepare all

God's people for the work of Christian service, in order to build up the body of

Christ, Eph 4:10-12. In this Chapter the researcher will analyse each Office of the

Five-fold ministry; linking the most prevalent Gifts to that specific Office.

Emanating from YHWH, Yahshua received the Nine Spiritual Gifts for Ministry.

These Spiritual Gifts are empowerment for Ministry unto the sick, needy, dying,

spiritually and emotionally bound – and eventually the cross. Distinguishing

Yahshua from all in His era was the evident operating in all the Holy Spirit gifts in

His ministry, and they are:

• Power, stirred by YHWH Who energised Him;

• Yahshua received the visible manifestation of the Holy Spirit as evidence that

the gifts of the Spirit is for the profit and benefit of all.

• Yahshua received through the Holy Spirit, the power to speak a message of

wisdom, and;

• Yahshua received, through the Holy Spirit, the power to express a word of

knowledge and understanding;

• Yahshua received wonder-working faith by the Holy Spirit;

• Yahshua received extraordinary powers of healing by the Holy Spirit;

• Yahshua received power for the working of miracles;

• Yahshua received the gift of prophetic insight,

• Yahshua received the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose of

YHWH;

• Yahshua received the ability to discern and distinguish between the

utterances of true spirits and evil spirits;

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• Yahshua is the creator of languages, there is no record of Him praying in

tongues; assuming He only spoke the pure language, Hebrew (Zeh 3:9).

Being the Elohim of language, He has the ability to interpret all tongues. All

these gifts, achievements, and abilities are inspired and brought to pass by

YHWH, who is the Holy Spirit, Who apportioned to Yahshua (the man)

exactly as He choose, for the benefit of His spiritual family, 1Cor 12:4-11.

Who is the Ruach HaKodesh or the Spirit of Yahshua?

In Chapter Two, Yahshua is portrayed in His current role as the Great High Priest

in heaven and in order for Him to assume such a position, He had a calling to

fulfil, to write a test, so to speak. The test was to lay down His Deity, take the

form of a human being, live like them, speak like them, and experience their pain,

sorrow, disappointments, sickness, sin and fear of death. Being the Lamb of the

Eternal one, without spot or blemish, by choice, He did not sin. Our High Priest is

not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have

a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin, Heb

4:15; Heb 7:26; Isa 53:9; Joh 8:46; 2Cor 5:21; 1Pet 2:22; 1Joh 3:5. Yahshua, the

Sinless One, after His ascension, send His Spirit to each of His followers, to enable

them to live a powerful, sinless live, by choice.

In order to see the manifest Presence of the Ruach one need to live the way

Yahshua lived, dead to self and to sin, but alive unto YHWH. He allowed the

Father, through the Ruach HaKodesh, to live in and through Him. Yahshua,

through the Ruach, desires to live in and through the believer. The Spirit that the

believers receive is the Spirit of Yahshua. But you are not in flesh, but in Spirit

since the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, this

one is not His. But if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but

the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of the One having raised

Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One having raised the Christ from the dead

will also make your mortal bodies live through the indwelling of His Spirit in you,

Rom 8:9-11

One can assume that Yahshua had prior knowledge of the Ruach HaKodesh, or

Set Apart Spirit, because He came from heaven. Yes, but being a righteous and

just Elohim, He would model the communication pattern through Yahshua, the

man. Therefore, Yahshua, the man, had to meet the Ruach face to face in prayer

– setting the pattern for His followers. Yahshua could only reveal the Person of

the Ruach through intimacy with Him. Yahshua was often in prayer; and

communicating with YHWH; He had no other way to know the will of YHWH but

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through the Ruach. That is why He said, When He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-

giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For

He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell

whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given

to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come

[that will happen in the future]. He will honour and glorify Me, because He will

take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose,

transmit) it to you, Joh16:13,14; Act 21:11. All prayers of thanksgiving, the Ruach

direct and deflect them back to YHWH and Yahshua – He takes no glory.

To foster a relationship with the Ruach one has to know He has a personality and

can be grieved, offended, quenched or blasphemed, lied to, and set oneself

against Him in rebellion or disobedience, Eph 4:30; 1The 5:19, Mat 12:32, Mar

3:29; Act 5:3, Act 7:51. He has the gentleness of a dove. A dove does not have a

gallbladder (no bitterness), furthermore, a dove has nine pen feathers at the tip

of each wing, depicting the nine gifts and nine fruits of the Spirit that He bestows

upon believers.

YHWH the Ruach HaKodesh is:

• The Spirit of Truth, Joh 16:13, 14:17;

• The Comforter, Joh 15:26;

• The Spirit of YHWH 1Cor 12:2;

• The Explorer of depths of YHWH, 1Cor 2:10;

• The Teacher, 1Joh 2:27;

• Spirit of Prophecy, Act 2:17, Rev 19:10;

• Will speak for the believer in times of trouble, Mar 13:11, Luk 12:12;

• Can lead a person to a specific place, Luk 4:11;

• The Holy Spirit will enter one on a personal request, Luk 11:13;

• Holy Spirit gives power, Act 1:8;

• Is received by laying on of hands, Act 8:17;

• Can be pleased, Act 15:28;

• Can forbid one to preach the Word, Act 16:5;

• Pours out the love of God into ones heart, Rom 5:5;

• Is the Spirit of Adoption, Sonship, Rom 8:15;

• The human body is the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, 1Cor 6:19; Rom 8:11;

• The Holy Spirit cleanses the conscience of man, Heb 9:14;

• The Holy Spirit is my helper, Joh 14:16, Heb 13:16;

• The Holy Spirit testifies in Heaven, 1Joh 5:7;

• The Holy Spirit bears witness on the earth, 1Joh 5;8

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• The Spirit of Sonship, Rom 8:9;

• Spirit of Life, Rom 8:2, Joh 6:63;

• Spirit speaks to the Assemblies of YHWH, Rev 2:7;

• The Spirit calls the Bride of Yahshua to prepare, Rev 22:17.

ANALYSING THE DEMONSTRATION OF RUACH HAKODESH GIFTS

It is highly exciting when one sees in action the demonstration of the above-

mentioned gifts of YHWH as bestowed upon true believers – but some run in

terror at the prospect of functioning in them; the lack of knowledge permits fear

to hinder the workflow of the Ruach. The modern day Western Church has lost

her boldness, as a Body Corporate, very few individuals flow in the gifts.

Sporadically one will see a demonstration of His gifts, then people quenching it

soon after manifestation. Mostly the lack of knowledge in the functioning in the

gifts of the Spirit is the obstacle in handling a Holy Spirit outpouring, and it

eventually becomes man-driven. Therefore, Yahshua Who set the pattern in the

demonstration of the gifts, will guide one through the pages of the Renewed

Covenant to the Truth. In order to understand how Yahshua functioned or

operated in the Gifts of the Spirit, one has to categorize them for clarity

purposes. The Apostle Paul said to the Church in Corinth And now, dear brothers

and sisters, I will write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of

us, for I must correct your misunderstandings (ignorance) about them.

Circumstances will dictate how the Holy Spirit will operate through a believer,

always from the standpoint what will benefit the church or an individual Believer,

1Cor 12:1-7.

Three categories of Gifts

The simplest way to describe these nine gifts is that three of them say something,

three of them do something and three of them reveal something:

• The three that say something are the gifts of utterance. They are Prophecy,

divers (different) kinds of Tongues and Interpretation of tongues;

• The three gifts that do something are the gifts of power. They are the gifts of

Faith, the Working of Miracles, and the Gifts of Healing;

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• The three gifts that reveal something are the gifts of revelation. They are: the

Word of Wisdom, the Word of Knowledge, and Discerning of Spirits. Only

when the believer begins to label the gifts, do they realise that they have

been flowing in those gifts for a long time!

Walking in Agreement

The words we have inherited lies from our fathers, becomes a reality when one

hears how walking in the Spirit is interpreted as the Gospel truth. And I will put

My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My

judgments and do them, Eze 36:27. One has to realise that YHWH puts HIS Spirit

(not a counterfeit) in a human, but The Walk one has to do according to the

Voice of the Indwelling Presence. Many will not hear the Voice, due to lack of

prayer and intimacy with Him. When a believer is filled with the Spirit of YHWH

Act 17:28 becomes a reality for in him it is we live, and move, and exist: as one of

your own wise men hath said: From him is our descent – or His children.

To walk in the Spirit means one are in a Covenant relationship with YHWH, Jer

31:33, Who wrote His Laws in the spirit of man. Can two people walk together

without agreeing on the direction? Amo 3.3. The believer then has to agree with

the Spirit to walk together – relationship. Yahshua specifically said I do as the

Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know (be convinced) that I

love the Father and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do.[I act

in Full Agreement with His orders, Joh 14:31, (Amp). Therefore, when the

believer reaches the place of Full Agreement with the Spirit, they will see the

Apostolic Church in action again, in the same manner as Yahshua and the

Apostles demonstrated it. The modern day believer receives the same Holy Spirit

Whom Yahshua and the Apostles received and can therefore have the SAME walk

with the Spirit.

Separation for Preparation

The Apostle Paul prayed the following prayer for all who wish to have a

revelation of the will of Abba, may YHWH, the glorious Father of Yeshua our

Messiah, give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full

knowledge of Him – Revealing the Spirit walk of Yahshua, the man, begins with

understanding the principle of:

• Separation for Preparation: Yahshua was a Jewish Rabbi. To this day, a

Rabbi may not speak publicly before he is 30 years old, and by invitation

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only, and as a Rabbi, He had to know the Tanach by heart. After His infilling,

the Ruach HaKodesh led Yahshua into the desert for the first test – the

separation. In the desert, spiritually preparing for ministry, Yahshua fasted

for 40 days and nights. Then the tempter, the evil one, came to deceive Him.

Yahshua knew the Word and steadfastly rebuked satan with the words, it is

written. Yahshua did not defend His Sonship, as He already received the

Spirit of Adoption, Rom 8:15. The gift, Discerning of spirits were functioning

through Him as he discerned the devil and overcame him by the Power of His

Word, 1Joh 2:14, Rev 12:11.

• The gift of discerning of spirits gives one insight into the spirit world both

good and bad spirits, and the human spirit. This gift is not only for discerning

of devils or evil spirits. To discern means to see, seeing into the realm of

spirits – this is a supernatural manifestation. This does not mean one can do

mind-reading, nor is it psychological insight or mental penetration or the

power to discern faults in others, to simplify, a person develop a

judgemental spirit and then label it discernment. It can, however, evolve

into gossip and slander under a spiritual guise. One can utilise this gifts i.e.

when one needs to sig/n a contract – and Abba knows the heart, spirit and

mind of the person we are dealing with. His Spirit can warn us of evil or

dishonest intentions. Yahshua did not call the believers to rule over each

other, but to take authority over demons and cast them out.

• Yahshua demonstrated to the believers how to utilise the Word at all times.

Consequently, believers need to know their status as children, the Word and

that once called; there is a time of separation and preparation. Yahshua

demonstrated this very same principle when he called His disciples and each

Believer – a time to become intimately acquainted with the Word.

ANALYSING YAHSHUA IN THE OFFICE OF EVANGELIST

An Evangelist loves to see the salvation of the lost and the miracle working

power of Elohim. This is his specialty field. The Apostle, Prophet, and Teacher

also operate in miracles, but the Evangelist seems to operate very fluently in

them. The Prophet is more attuned to revelations, whilst the Apostle is equipped

to establish and facilitate; the Teacher is equipped to staying Scriptural!

Yahshua, being full of Holy Ghost Power, began to preach the Gospel Repent, for

the Kingdom is here, Mat 4:17. Whilst preaching the Gospel, He called followers,

thereby demonstrating a Kingdom principle of paramount importance; each one

is part of the Body Corporate. In order to secure unity amongst the brothers, no

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provision was made for lone rangers; they can become intimidated and

manipulated by people, who are their financial supporters, Judas being a good

example. The disciples made a calculated choice, risking all, leaving all to follow

Him, Mat 4:22. Yahshua demonstrated the pattern for Evangelists; preach and

teach the Gospel (for the Jew first then the Greek) for it is THE power of God,

Rom 1:16 and one will see the much-coveted Presence of YHWH.

• Demonstrating the Gifts as an Evangelist: As an Evangelist, what did

Yahshua encounter in the field? The sick, the possessed, and the needy!

Being an Evangelist one need to function in all the gifts of the Spirit, this does

not mean simultaneously, as 1Cor 12:7 state, the ministrations of the gifts

will operate when it is profitable for either the Church or an individual. It is

of paramount importance to note that Yahshua commanded each believer to

win souls, Mat 28:19. For instance, the gift of discerning of spirits is

indispensable for an evangelist. When on a crusade he may encounter

strange phenomena’s (Shouting, moaning, crying, vomiting, rolling, spirits of

infirmity, etc), which could cause fear in the audience. The evangelist needs

to discern the demon in the person and cast it down with a word, just as

Yahshua did it. Evangelists see the outward manifestation of an inward

indwelling. The Holy Spirit gave and inward witness that it is a manifesting

demon. It would suffice to say that the power gifts are firstly for the soul

winners. The believer needs to realise that every time a person is born again,

Elohim, through the Holy Spirit, demonstrates His power, through the

Evangelist, to the enemy!

• There are times when the power gifts, the Gift of Faith, the Working of a

Miracle and the Gifts of Healing need to operate, when a general prayer or

general faith will not work. The Gift of Faith is for one to receive miracles

from YHWH; the Working of Miracles is a gift so that the believer might work

a miracle. The gift of Faith is passive whilst the Working of a Miracle is

active. Kenneth Hagin, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, p38, wrote these three gifts

are all present when a person is raised from the dead. It takes supernatural

faith to call a person’s Spirit back when it has left the body. It takes the

working of miracle to raise the person, and it takes the gifts of healing,

otherwise, it the person is not healed, he would immediately die again. This

includes the faith to say, in the Name of Yahshua, I rebuke this Spirit of death

or this spirit of infirmity. Ordinary faith would not have achieved this; the

supernatural power of YHWH is in manifestation, by His Holy Spirit.

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• As the Evangelist presents the truth of the Gospel, which is the power of

YHWH, the sick will develop faith to receive healing, and they come forward

for ministry. Many times the sovereign Elohim will heal a person without a

person receiving the laying on of hands; often the sick release their faith,

when they are touched or like the women with the issue of blood, her faith

kindled, reached out to Messiah, and touched him, instantly healed. This

woman operated in the Gift of Faith, because she received!

• Healing as a Power gift, Yahshua identified by the Holy Spirit and the gift of

discernment, and satan as the source of diseases, Act 10:38. The next gift

operating through an Evangelist are the Gifts of Healing. As there are various

diseases, it cannot be the gift of healing, but Gifts of Healing. In the realm of

healing, often miracles are received, but they are not the result of working of

miracles, they are healing miracles. Working a miracle is (Mat 12:13) when

Yahshua spoke a word and the man with the paralysed hand was healed.

This was a manifestation of YHWH’s power.

ANALYSING YAHSHUA IN THE OFFICE OF TEACHER

A Teacher is one who systematically teaches the Word of God. They prefer a line

upon line approach to ministry and are very methodical. The Prophet will find

this boring, but the Prophet needs the stability and the safety of the unchanging

Word from The Teacher lest he be deceived by pride, because of his heightened

spiritual experiences. The Teacher builds into the live of the believer the truths

that are universal and unchanging, assimilating every heart and mind. The

Teacher must not give in to the tendency to make his life and those whom he

teaches merely a study hall. He should listen closely to the revelations coming

from the Prophet for they will springboard him into refreshing waters of insight

which the Spirit is prompting him to search out and expound upon! One who

stands in both the Office of Teacher and Prophet is probably on his way maturing

to be an Apostle.

• Yahshua the Teacher then went about teaching the Truth about YHWH and

His Kingdom; confirming the Torah truths, rebuking man made ordinances

and traditions. YHWH worked together with Him, healing all manner of

diseases, delivering the oppressed from demonic possession. Nicodemus

came to speak with Jesus. Teacher, he said, we all know that God has sent

you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are proof enough that God is with you,

Joh 3:2. And the disciples went everywhere preaching, the Ruach working

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right with them, validating the Message with indisputable evidence, Mar

16:20. Yahshua, as teacher, had to demonstrate what he taught i.e. healing,

love and forgiveness by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

• Yahshua the Mentor had a discipleship program; He allocated time to teach

his disciples. He once again demonstrated the principle; after calling,

separation and preparation for ministry. This time alone with His disciples He

created the foundation for unity. Bear in mind Yahshua did not have the

Renewed Covenant; He had the Torah and Prophets, Mat 5:1.

• Demonstrating the Gifts of the Teacher: Gift of faith, gift of Working a

Miracles and gifts of Healing in the Tanach: From the moment of his

Divinely orchestrated meeting with YHWH, Moshe had seen the working of

Miracles in action. The deliverance of the Hebrew nation from slavery, until

the end of their 40 years stay in the desert, was a supernatural working of

miracles. Each time YHWH gave Moses an instruction, Moses released the

supernatural power of Elohim by speaking His Word (as Teacher). It was

Divine intervention in the ordinary course of nature; no known power could

release the Israelites from the most powerful nation on the earth. Deu 34:12

state that Moshe revealed and demonstrated the power of Elohim. King

David is another example of mere man demonstrating the power of YHWH,

through the Gift of Faith and Working Miracles by speaking his faith and

YHWH’s Word; He displayed My Power by being my witness and a leader

(Teacher) among the nations, Isa 55:4. It is possible for every modern day

Believer (Teacher), through the Holy Spirit gifts of faith and working of

miracles, to make a life changing difference in their environment

At the institution of the first Passover, before their arduous trek into the desert,

ALL the Israelites were healed by partaking in the Passover meal. Consider a

moment to contemplate the poverty they lived in and understand this great en

masse Gifts of Healing in operation. YHWH confirmed the Healing Covenant in

the desert, speaking in an audible voice, If you will diligently listen to the voice of

YHWH your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention

to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on

you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am YHWH who heals you (Your

Physician) Exo 15:26. YHWH kept this Word; for 40 years there were an ongoing

working of miracles with healing, provision and protection (Torah lifestyle). King

David confirms this in Psa 105:37 But he brought his people safely out of Egypt,

loaded with silver and gold; there were no sick or feeble people among them.

YHWH never revoked the Healing Covenant, He confirmed it in Messiah, and then

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sealed this Covenant with His blood on the cross. The modern day believer may

want to look at the Torah Holiness lifestyle when encountering unexplained, non-

healing diseases, as a Teacher one has to research the causes for diseases.

Gifts of faith, the Working of Miracles and gifts of Healing in the Renewed

Covenant: Yahshua from the conception, to His death, and resurrection was the

working of a miracle, Elohim demonstrating His love for His creation, His urgency

for their salvation, and to loose all from the fear of death. The Holy Spirit in the

Book of Acts was leading the newly formed Apostolic Assembly in every area of

their lives. The infilling of the Holy Spirit is the Working of a Miracle, the

operating in the other gifts are in itself is the Working of a Miracle. That the

Church is still in existence after 2000 years is an ongoing Working of a Miracle!

The Teacher must demonstrate what He teaches – the power of God.

ANALYSING YAHSHUA IN THE OFFICE OF THE PROPHET

A Prophet is one who receives revelations via dreams, visions, and Words of

Wisdom and Knowledge on a regular basis. The Prophet also prophecies and

operates in the other gifts. A Prophet is one who sees and knows things many

times by a strong inward witness, and is an Intercessor who waits to see what

YHWH would say or do. He communicates with the members in the Body

concerning impending dangers and/or opportunities needing appropriate

response. He is highly sensitive to the cause and effect of obedience and

disobedience. The prophet is assigned to do various tasks of Intercession from

the local assembly level to the international level. A prophet seems spooky and

odd many times, but there is a special grace upon them that is necessary for a

healthy Assembly. His ministry and teaching operates in a way that drives a pure

Teacher over the edge as they are very spontaneous and sometimes seemingly

incoherent. When in reality they are touching the needs of many hearts like a

skilled surgeon.

Yahshua did exactly what all the prophets prior His stay on the earth has done;

He urged Israel and the nations to return to the YHWH of their fathers by

pointing the way back to the Torah, Oral traditions excluded. Yahshua has done

this and clarifying some points on the Torah or Law, said,

• Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the Law of

Moses (Torah) or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to fulfil (complete)

them, But that doesn't mean that the Law has lost its force in even the

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smallest point. It is stronger and more permanent than heaven and earth

Mat 5:17, 18.

• Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget (nullify)

the Law (Torah)? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly

fulfil (establish) the Law (Torah), Rom 3:31. Will religion ever get this right?

Faith in Yahshua brings one back home and establishes Torah.

• For Moshiach has accomplished the whole purpose (goal) of the Law. All who

believe in him are made right with God, Rom 10:4. Messiah, fulfilled every

single Word of Wisdom regarding His coming to the planet, and currently,

every Word of Wisdom that He has spoken regarding the last days are being

fulfilled.

Due to lack of knowledge, there is much confusion on the subject of these three

gifts and they are often confused with a word of prophecy. Prophecy is a gift of

utterance whilst a Word of Wisdom or a Word of Knowledge is revelatory gifts,

all imparted through the Spirit (and He distributes according to what is profitable

to an individual or the Body Corporate).

Explaining the Gift of a Word of Knowledge

A Word of knowledge is the supernatural revelation of facts that the human mind

could not know at a given moment, it is facts that are known only to the Ruach,

and He wants to transmit this knowledge via a Spirit-filled person. Kenneth Hagin

wrote that YHWH imparts only a word. The author disagrees, for when one study

the book of Acts and the Tanach the Ruach gave complete instructions. Even

through the mode of the Urim and Thummim, He gave full answers. For the

modern day believer, nothing has changed, but the lack of knowledge of the gifts

as well as the intimate relationship with the Spirit, are disabling factors. Ananias,

a layperson, had a vision through the Ruach that he was going to meet Saul, who

became Paul. Moreover the Ruach gave him not only the street name, but also

the homeowner’s name where he is to see Paul, Act 9:10-12. Ananias, in the

natural, could not know about that specific house in that specific street – it was

by Ruach revelation, a Word of Knowledge. The secret of Pauls’ healing and

baptism depended on the instant obedience of Ananias. Therefore, one should

instantly obey the Spirit, as delayed obedience is disobedience.

One can hear or see the Ruach in a vision, audibly, through an inward revelation

or angels. Do not confuse knowledge of the Bible with this gift a Word of

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Knowledge; nevertheless, to test the word, one should compare the received

Word of knowledge against Scripture, as the Ruach will not give an instruction

that is contrary to the Word. This Word of Knowledge could be a revelation of

present or past facts that is known to only to the sinner or hearer, and this could

lead to repentance. But if all prophesy [giving inspired testimony and

interpreting the divine will and purpose] and an unbeliever or untaught outsider

comes in, he is told of his sin and reproved and convicted and convinced by all,

and his defects and needs are examined (estimated, determined) and he is called

to account by all. The secrets of his heart are laid bare; and so, falling on [his]

face, he will worship God, declaring that God is among you in very truth, 1Cor

14:24.

The Word of Knowledge could also be applied to ones daily life’s; when one has

mislaid something and pray about it, the Ruach will help one recover the lost

property – normally by inward witness, He will even help one to retrace ones

steps. It is quicker to enquire of the Ruach then sending all to search for the

property. The Word of Knowledge is a supernatural revelation by the Ruach

concerning certain facts in the mind of YHWH relating to people, places or things

that happened in the past.

Explaining the Gift of a Word of Wisdom

The Word of Wisdom is a supernatural revelation by the Ruach concerning the

divine purposes of YHWH; and always speaks of the future. The Word of

knowledge and the Word of Wisdom often operate together. In Act 9:10-16, as

seen, YHWH gave Ananias (a layperson) a word for Saul who became Paul. It was

explicit instructions. Actually, the word was for his healing and Holy Spirit

baptism (current) and that Paul will suffer whilst preaching the Gospel (future).

He therefore revealed to Ananias YHWH’s plans for Paul in the future.

Thereafter, once Paul was filled with the Ruach, Yahshua spoke to Paul directly

(also in prison), confirming the Word spoken to Ananias. Do note that this was

not natural wisdom or Bible knowledge, but Spirit imparted knowledge.

Should a believer desire wisdom in every day life affairs, then they should pray

for such wisdom according to Jam 1:5; this is not the supernatural gift of a Word

of Wisdom, just Grace. King Solomon received such wisdom from YHWH. Such

wisdom is within the reach of each believer as Yahshua said in Mat 12:42 that

Someone more and greater than Solomon is here, referring to Himself and His

Divine wisdom. Yahshua imparts wisdom to the believer as the Word says, Who

is able to advise the Spirit of the LORD? Who knows enough to be his teacher or

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counsellor? Has the LORD ever needed anyone's advice? Does he need instruction

about what is good or what is best? Isa 40:13,14. For who has known or

understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and

instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the

Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart 1Cor 2:16.

Not only does the believer have access to His Supernatural wisdom, they have

Him IN them through the indwelling of the Ruach HaKodesh! Mar 11:24, Joh

15:7; 1Joh 5:15 encourages all to ask! The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom

(skilful and godly Wisdom)! [For skilful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.]

And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension,

and interpretation), Pro 4:7. There is Wisdom for daily affairs, the Gift of Wisdom

and then there is the Spirit of Wisdom: the Believer has no justification for not

knowing how to deal with problems or issues.

Demonstrating the primary function of the prophet: Restoration

But one who prophesies is helping others grow in the Lord, encouraging and

comforting them, 1Cor 14:3. The faithful prophet will receive more than just the

prophetic gift, as the Spirit wills to the profit of the Body overall. Many people

think that a prophet is one who tells the future, like a soothsayer of a fortune

teller, but the primary function of a prophet is to warn people and to point out

the error of their way so that they can get back on the straight path, back into the

fold.

The gift of prophecy has elements of revelation to it. Kenneth Hagin defines

prophecy as The Hebrew word that is translated to prophecy means to flow forth.

Mr Hagin continues to clarify the difference between prophecy in the Old and

Renewed Covenants. In The Old Testament, prophecy is essentially foretelling

future events, whereas in the New Testament it shifts strongly to forthtelling. The

Tanach prophets had the Gifts of the Ruach operating in them in order to stand in

the Office as Prophet, because they prophesied the future; unfortunately in every

day usage believers erroneously began to label everything a prophecy, where as

words pertaining to the future are actually the gift of Word of Wisdom in

operation. Every gift is of the Holy Spirit and the believer works in total

agreement with Him. This requires unconditional obedience and a sinless life.

Prophecy is a supernatural utterance in a known tongue, which is different from

speaking in tongues or interpretation of tongues. Yet, they can be in operation in

the same service or time.

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What is the Torah then, a Word of Wisdom, a Word of knowledge or the

Working of a miracle? Analysing the delivery of the Torah, one discovers that all

three gifts were in operation: the audible Batkol Voice of Elohim is the Working

of a Miracle; every one present heard it. The Word of Knowledge as YHWH

referred to the facts concerning their past in Egypt, and followed by instructing a

present lifestyle. Next the gift, Word of Wisdom, operated as He gave them

instructions for ALL generations (future). YHWH through Moses, the Judges, the

Prophets and the kings governed the Israelites, and the strangers sojourning with

them, to live The Torah, according to this word of wisdom – an ongoing working

of a miracle! Can one reject such a wondrous ongoing miracle and call it

outdated?

If the modern day believers then say, we are under Grace and no longer under

the Law, why do they not live the Law of Liberty that governs Grace? Here one

has to define Liberty: the freedom and right to do whatever you want without

asking permission or being afraid of authority, even if it offends or upset

someone (Longman Exam Dictionary). Maybe the Living God Who judges all

people through both the Torah and the Law of Perfect Freedom has been

offended, and now it is retribution time, Jam 2:12. He, Who gave the Law of

Perfect Freedom also wrote the Torah in the heart of His Children under the

Renewed Covenant. YHWH cannot lie; He cannot permit an unbridled lifestyle

without any restrictions. The Prophet restores man to YHWH and His Torah and

its protection.

Under the unction or anointing of the Spirit, Yahshua operated in the gift of a

Word of Wisdom and prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, and it happened

73 years after His ascension. He also prophesied what would happen in the last

days or future (Mat 24) and every single word is happening, now in this time.

Yahshua clearly demonstrated that not every word that a prophetic person

speaks is prosperity words; which has become a modern day Church tradition.

There are therefore the simple gift of prophecy for daily ministry or when needed

and then there are the mature believer who is promoted to the Office of the

Prophet.

Finally, believers are encouraged to aspire for the gift of prophecy. All can

prophecy, as the Spirit wills, but the Office of a Prophet is an appointment made

by YHWH.

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ANALYSING YAHSHUA IN THE OFFICE OF PASTOR OR SHEPHERD

The E-Sword Bible defines a pastor as a shepherd; one that has the care of flocks

and herds. Yahshua verbally explained the criteria for the shepherd: I am the

Good Shepherd; the Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices

himself if necessary, Joh 10:11 (Message).

The Messiah, the Good Shepherd:

• Lead His flock with integrity and obedience to the spoken will of YHWH. He

did not fear to tell Abba in prayer that He cared for the flock, Joh 17;

• He had to pray to hear the Voice and will of YHWH, Mat 14;

• Yahshua did not steal from the government, He paid his taxes, Mat 22;

• He fed His flock, Mat 14;

• He offended no-one, yet people took offence, Mat 17; when one imitates

Yahshua, they or the disciple will be offended. How did Yahshua react to

offence, what was His example to His followers? Phi 1:10;

• He did not gossip, He did not lie as the Word says He committed no sin, and

no one ever heard a lie come from his lips, 1Pet 2:22. For the Scriptures say, If

you want a happy life and good days, keep your tongue from speaking evil,

and keep your lips from telling lies, 1Pet 3:10.

• He observed the Torah to Perfection and then . . . on a cross He sacrificed

Himself for His flock, Joh 10;

• He did not leave His flock as orphans, He sent the Comforter, the Holy Ruach,

Joh 14;

• He revealed Fatherhood and Sonship, a love relationship;

• He confirmed that the Sabbath is to be observed, without tradition of men;

• He demonstrated Godly and Apostolic authority. It goes without question

that Yahshua had to function in all the Holy Spirit Gifts in order to be a good

Shepherd. How does the modern day Pastor, spiritual leader measure up to

this criteria?

• Yahshua, the Good Shepherd of Israel: Then he said to the woman, "I was

sent only to help the people of Israel - God's lost sheep - not the Gentiles”,

Mat 15:24. In John chapter 10, Messiah informs His followers that He is the

Shepherd of the sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that enters not by the

door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief

and a robber. But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of, the sheep.

To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own

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sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he puts forth his own sheep,

he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And

a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the

voice of strangers. Then said Jesus unto them again, verily, verily, I say unto

you, l AM the door of the sheep.

Demonstrating and analysing the primary task of the Shepherd: Analysing

Messiah’s words regarding His assignment to the earth, is significant; I was sent

ONLY to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Yahshua is stating here that he is

talking about HIS people Israel, not the nation Israel, whom most Hebraic

believers would identify as Ten-Israel or lost tribes of Israel; connecting it to the

Gentiles. The western-minded believer would say, yes, that is right, they killed

the Messiah. The Jews say, Yes, He is for the lost sheep; we are already in the fold

or Covenant. In Israel, the Messianic Jews believe that Yahshua came for the lost

Tribes of Israel, assimilated into the Gentile nations, and the Gentiles themselves.

We have the Covenants and the Torah, we are in the Covenant, and you Gentiles

have nothing. One has to specialise in Identifying and researching the 10 lost

tribes, and their imminent return. As previously said, one could inadvertently be

a Jew, and therefore one of the lost sheep of the House of Israel; – and need to

be found by a Jew (Yahshua’s orders) and brought back into the fold!

If the Gentiles truly believe that Messiah came for them, (they are now Israel

according to Replacement theology and therefore the Shepherds of Israel) then

conditions are attached to this privilege, Son of man prophesy against the

shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, Thus says the LORD God to the

shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not

the shepherds feed the flocks? You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool,

you kill them that are fed, but you feed not the flock. The diseased have you not

strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you

bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was

driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost. Eze 34:2-4. Extensive

research on Replacement Theology was done in a previous chapter and

therefore, it would suffice to state that the Jews, being the custodians of the

Torah and Good News, need Shepherd protection from the House of Israel

(Gentiles, Ten-Israel), or be held accountable by the Living YHWH.

• The Messiah is speaking to Peter, "Love you me more than these? He said to

him, yes Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him “Feed my lambs”. He

said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? He said

to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him Feed my sheep,

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Joh 21:15-16. The Messiah asked the question of Peter three times and he

became upset. But what Yahshua was conveying forcefully to Peter, and

indeed the rest of the disciples, was that they were to be given the

important task of seeking out the lost sheep of the House of Israel with the

good news of the Kingdom of YHWH; to feed my sheep. Instead of warning

His people of their lack of faith in YHWH and His promises, the Believers

remained silent (silently condoned), even helping to persecute YHWH’s

prophets when they, fulfilling their commission, tried to guide the people

back into the fold of YHWH’s mercy – the House of Israel failed the

Household of Judah. They did not take care of His Sheep properly, the House

of Israel (Gentiles) is poor custodians – not imitating the Good Shepherd

Who gave His life for His flock, Eze 34:2-4.

• The Gentile believers, per sé, arrogantly adopted ownership for the Tanach,

as the Renewed Covenant was not yet written! Then the Gentile Believers

took possession of the new Covenant as well. With the adoption of

custodianship, came the overconfidence to judge the Jews. How did the

Believers administer this custodianship and will they be held accountable for

this self-appointed custodianship? Will they be held accountable for the poor

Shepherding of the Jewish nation?

ANALYSING AND DEFINING YAHSHUA AS AN APOSTLE

An Apostle is appointed to that Office. He is the sent one, with all respect, he is

the “Messenger boy” of YHWH; no glamour associated with this Office as one will

soon see. The Apostle is the protector of the foundational Apostolic Doctrinal

truths in the Assembly. He is an ambassador from the Kingdom of Elohim. He has

the ability to establish the Assembly of YHWH on a firm foundation. He is able to

synthesize all of the ministries into a cohesive, effective unit. He is one who has

matured as he has evolved through the other giftings and is able to operate in

any one of them as the need arises and the Spirit of God wills it. An Apostle has a

Kingly stature. Not all Apostles have the same ministry anointing as some of them

communicate an emphasis of one of the other ministry gifts within them i.e.

prophetic and healing, healing and evangelist, pastor and prophet, as the Spirit

will for the benefit of the Body. Yahshua was sent by YHWH, For [He] whom God

sent speaks the sayings (Oracles) of God, for God does not give the Spirit by

measure, Joh 3:34. Therefore, should a believer make a statement that he is an

Apostle, it needs to ascertained that he is sent and that he functions in the full

measure of the Spirit – and not by human criteria for an Apostle.

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• The Shaliach (Emissary or Ambassador) of YHWH: Shaliach means agent and

emissary and is a halachic (Torah-legal) term for a person empowered or

delegated by someone else to act in his stead. The Shaliach first appears in

the Torah in the person of Eliezer, whom Abraham commissioned to find a

wife for his son, Isaac. She was legally Isaac's wife without her actual

husband having ever set eyes on her or having exchanged a single word with

her. In the words of the Talmud, A person's Shaliach is as he himself.

Consider this in light of Yahshua saying, I and the Father are one. As Elohim’s

Shaliach, Yahshua was acting on behalf of YHWH; thus, YHWH's emissary or

representative was as YHWH, since he was fully empowered to act legally as

YHWH's chosen agent or ambassador, with the same authority as YHWH.

• Appointment of an agent or ambassador: Under the Jewish law (halacha),

an agent may be appointed without the formality of writing, that is, by

spoken words; and witnesses are not needed to give effect to these words,

except to prove, in case of dispute, that authority had been given, and the

extent of such authority. The standard authorities draw this conclusion from

the remark in Kiddushin, 65b, that witnesses are needed only to meet

denials.

• An agent may appoint a subagent; the apostles, and believers who continue

to spread the "good news" of Yahshua's rule and the Kingdom of God, are

subagents sent by Him.

• It should also be noted that a Shaliach has his emissary status revoked either

by failure (such as Israel or modern day believers) or death. Yahshua did not

fail and He Lives!! Therefore, he is still the Shaliach of YHWH. Since He is

the fully empowered agent of YHWH, he has the power to forgive sins, heal,

resurrect, and fill with His Spirit. Each true follower of Messiah is to go forth

as a Shaliach of THE Shaliach.

• In the USA, The Law of Agency deals with the status of a person (known as

the agent) acting by direction of another (the principal), and thereby legally

binding the principal in his connection with a third person. The person who

binds a principal in this manner is his agent, known in Jewish law as sheluach

or Shaliach (one that is sent): the relation of the former to the latter is

known as agency (shelichut). The general principle is thus: A man's agent is

like himself with the same authority. Yahshua, as the agent of YHWH, is fully

empowered to represent YHWH (power of Attorney). As the agent (Shaliach)

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of Elohim, Yahshua is "like," or the "likeness" and "image" of Elohim, with all

authority to perform His calling.

• The Apostolic Confession: so then, brethren, consecrated and set apart for

God, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively]

consider Jesus, the Apostle (Emissary) and High Priest Whom we confessed

[as ours when we embraced the Christian faith, Heb 3:1. What did Yahshua

confess? Sh'ma, Yisra'el! YHWH Eloheinu, YHWH echad Hear, Yisra’el! YHWH

our Elohim, YHWH is one, and you are to love YHWH your God with all your

heart, all your being and all your resources, Deu 6:4,5; Mar 12:29. Moses

speaking to the nation after their deliverance from Egypt and its idols said,

Listen, Yisrael! The Eternal, (Who) is (now) our God, Will in the future be

universally acknowledged as the Eternal, Rashi Commentary. If this was the

confession of Yahshua, dare the modern day believer negate this Command?

What is the confession of the modern day believer? That the YHWH is the

only God and Yahshua is His Son, Heb 4:14, Heb 10:23.

• The Apostle Reveals the Father's Name: Yahshua came to reveal the Name

that YHWH Himself revealed to the Israelites and right through the Tanach

for 6832 times. The true Apostle cannot utilise another name. The Apostle

Restore referential fear for His Name, knowing that the curse is released

when His Holy Name is not honoured, Mal 2.2.

• The Apostle does the Father's Will and Works: Yahshua said that the

believer shall do greater works than He has done. In completing the study of

the Holy Spirit gifts, working of miracles, one is now so careful to imitate

Yahshua and do the Fathers works as empowered by the Holy Spirit.

• The Apostle Speaks the Father's Words: Come into total agreement with

Abba; declare His very Word over circumstances. His words will materialize

in the life of the Apostle and Prophet, in fact in the live of every believer.

Yet, when a believer (as a spirit being) breaks a covenant (his words, promise

or vow) he made with YHWH, as a spirit being, YHWH will judge the lie. To be

like Yahshua is to build a trust relationship with YHWH and His flock. The

Apostle’s integrity is of utmost importance. One cannot bring shame upon

the Body of Messiah, as it causes the Holy Spirit to withdraw.

• The Apostle Gives to the Father an Account of His Ministry as the Sent One:

In Joh 17, Yahshua in His High Priestly prayer for His followers present and

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future, specifically said that He has completed the assignment that He was

sent to do – being the Shaliach of YHWH. Yahshua demonstrated that He

could submit to authority; an important criterion for an Apostle; However, I

want you to realize that Christ has authority over every man, a husband has

authority over his wife, and God has authority over Christ, 1Cor 11:3.

Yahshua is the head of every man, being His Elohim – therefore responsible

unto YHWH for everyone! Therefore, no man has the right to expect

submission from (his) women if he is not in rightstanding to an invisible God.

The Apostle must humbly demonstrate his submission to either a spiritual

father, or leader. He ought to be prepared to receive correction or discipline,

yet lead by example.

The Marks or Insignia of the Apostle

There are certain unique marks that signify or identifies one as an Apostle that

needs to be present when promoting one to the Office or rank of Apostle. These

marks, in military terms are the insignia of the Apostle, being a soldier of the

Cross; Take your part in the hardships and suffering (which you are called to

endure), as a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier entangles

himself with the affairs of this (civilian) life, so that he might please the one

having enlisted him, 2Tim 2:3,4. It is clear that a soldier of Yahshua, like Himself

will suffer physically, emotionally and spiritually. The soldier of Yahshua has

entered warfare, the warfare against the enemy of YHWH – and the enemy will

try to destroy the man or women of YHWH, be it through sickness, emotional

pain or warfare in the mind.

• Did Yahshua bear those distinguishing, unique insignia that marks one in the

Apostolic Office? He was looked down on and passed over, a man who

suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away.

We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is it was our

pains he carried - our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We

thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own

failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and

crushed him - our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole.

Through his bruises we get healed. And GOD has piled all our sins, everything

we've done wrong, on him. He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn't say

a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared,

he took it all in silence. Justice miscarried, and he was led off, and did anyone

really know what was happening? He died without a thought for his own

welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people, Isa 53:1-8. In addition,

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crucified, He died a martyr’s death; martyred because of obedience unto

death. During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles

from time to time and proved to them in many ways that he was actually

alive. On these occasions he talked to them about the Kingdom of God, Act

1:3.They had to touch Him and see the wounds before they believed.

• Equal to Yahshua, YHWH promoted Paul, Peter, John and the others, to the

Apostolic Office, bearing the scars or marks of an Apostle, which qualified

them. Paul said All the Signs that Mark (Insignia) a True Apostle were in

evidence while I was with you through both good times and bad: with all

endurance, signs of wonder, signs of power. Approving ourselves as the

ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Cor 12:12. Then the Apostle Paul proceeds and lists the marks of a True

Apostle: We try not to put obstacles in anyone's path, so that no one can

find fault with the work we do. On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves

in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships,

calamities, beatings, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food. We commend

ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach

HaKodesh; by genuineness of love and truthfulness of speech; and by God's

power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons,

whether for pressing our cause or defending it; through being honoured and

dishonoured, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God's workers headed

for death, yet look! We’re alive! as punished, yet not killed; as having reason

to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as

having nothing, yet having everything, 2Cor 6:3-10.

• Now some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and turned the crowds into

a murderous mob. They stoned Paul and 0dragged him out of the city,

apparently dead. But as the believers stood around him, he got up and went

back into the city. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe, Act 14:19,20.

The mob left Paul for dead, but the believers stood around him, not curios,

but praying and calling him back to life! Functioning in the gifts Faith and

Working of a Miracle. Paul left for Debre the next day! One would wonder

what his body with the bruises felt like! One can therefore understand what

Paul meant when he said he bears the marks or insignia of an Apostle, and

he proceeds to challenge those that say they are Apostles: They say they

serve Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I

have worked harder, been put in JAIL more often, been whipped times

without number, and faced death again and again. FIVE different times the

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Jews gave me thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I

was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a

day adrift at sea. I have travelled many weary miles. I have faced danger

from flooded rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own

people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the

cities, in the deserts, and on the stormy seas. And I have faced danger from

men who claim to be Christians but are not. I have lived with weariness and

pain and sleepless nights. Often I have been hungry and thirsty and have

gone without food. Often I have shivered with cold, without enough clothing

to keep me warm. Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of how the

churches are getting along, 2Cor 11:23-28.

How does the modern day believer and Apostle compare to this Scriptural

standard set for an Apostle? There is also this thought provoking question, how

many of the modern day, 21st

Century Apostles are prepared to suffer for the

Gospel and for the Jews, in the same manner Paul (a Jew) suffered to reach the

Gentiles?

Acts chapters 6 and 7 tells the story of the martyred Stephen, full of the Holy

Ghost, stoned whilst preaching Yahshua, the living Torah. He actually blamed the

Israelites for killing all the prophets, who prophesied the coming of Messiah, and

thereby fulfilling the criterion of an Evangelist and Apostle – and elevating every

persecuted and martyred prophet to the rank of Apostle. This strategy has

continued through the ages, kill the true worshippers of YHWH, by religiously

accusing them of blasphemy, a crime that commands the death penalty

according to Torah! Practising this very strategy with Yahshua, they called Him a

blasphemer – and killed Him.

Who were the Apostles in the Tanach that carried the marks or insignia to be

labelled as one?

• The Prophet Daniel, who had an excellent Spirit, moved in every gift of the

Spirit, excluding the speaking in tongues, experienced great persecution;

• The Prophet Jeremiah, excelled in the Gift of Faith, Working of miracles, and

above all, he taught the Torah to the people of YHWH (Teacher), operated in

every Gift of the Spirit excluding the speaking in tongues has experienced

great persecution;

• The Prophet Ezekiel, experienced great persecution;

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• Finally, John the Baptist was beheaded.

Is the Apostolic Office Abolished?

Easton, M G, Easton’s Bible Dictionary, argued that the Apostolic Office served its

purpose until the deaths of the Apostles as the modern day Christian cannot fulfil

certain criteria. Easton state: It was characteristic of the apostles and necessary:

• That they should have seen the Lord, and been able to testify of Him and of

his resurrection from personal knowledge, Joh 15:27; Act 1:21, 22; 1Cor 9:1;

Act 22:14, 15;

• They must have been immediately called to that office by Christ, Luk

6:13; Gal 1:1;

• It was essential that they should be infallibly inspired, and thus secured

against all error and mistake in their public teaching, whether by word or by

writing, Joh 14:26; 16:13; 1The 2:13;

• Another qualification was the power of working miracles, Mar 16:20; Acts

2:43; 1Cor 12:8-11.

Easton’s conclusions: The apostles therefore could have had no successors, (as

they did not see the Messiah, researcher). They are the only authoritative

teachers of the Christian doctrines. The Office of an Apostle ceased with its first

holders. In 2Cor 8:23 and Phi 2:25 the word messenger is the rendering of the

same Greek word, elsewhere rendered apostle, (Easton’s Bible Dictionary,

Electronic Media, Dakes Annotated Bible).

I strongly disagree as Ephesians 4:10-12 are still valid, and 2,000 years later, not

yet revoked. Today there are Teachers who can teach the Apostolic Doctrines

with the same power as the Apostles, as it is the Spirit Who reveals the Truth

about YHWH and His Doctrines. The Apostles did not teach man-made doctrines,

but the will of ABBA YHWH. The test lies in the believers’ unconditional

submission to the Person of the Rauch HaKodesh to function in the Apostolic

Office, with persecutions to come. Modern day believers have not seen Him

physically, yet know He is alive in their Spirit, The Apostle, Great High Priest,

Author and Finisher of the Hebraic faith. Yahshua said to him, Because you have

seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (have faith)? Blessed and happy and to be

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envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to

and trusted and relied on Me, Joh 20:29; 2Cor 5:7 and 1Pet 1:8.

CONVERSION TO JUDAISM

It is wrong and unscriptural to force Gentile church culture upon the Jewish

people as a requirement for believing in their own Messiah. While it is right and

proper for other cultures to be sanctioned to practice their culture after coming

to faith in Yahshua, much of Jewish culture comes directly from the Scriptures,

and has a firm Scriptural foundation, lacking in persons from other cultures.

The situation was very different in the First century. Then the question was, How

can a Gentile believe in the Jewish Messiah? Shouldn't he convert to Judaism

first? Some Messianic Jews were saying to the Gentiles, Unless you are

circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. Others said,

It is necessary to circumcise them, and to direct them to observe the Law of

Moses, Act 15:1,5. The Council at Jerusalem decided that the Gentiles did not

have to convert to Judaism to believe in the Jewish Messiah Act 15:19-2; 28-19.

Properly observed, Messianic Judaism has no middle wall of partition separating

Jewish believers from Gentile Believers, Eph 2:14. Most Messianic assemblies

have a large percentage of Gentiles. Most of these Gentiles love Israel and the

Jewish people, and have adopted a Jewish expression of their faith in Messiah

Yahshua.

The Great Commission and Command is to go to the Jew first, preach and

demonstrate the gospel of Yahshua. But many, after spending time within the

traditional Jewish community are returning to the Messianic community with

strange ideas about the need for conversion, Talmudic teachings, and a

fascination for the secrets of Jewish mysticism hidden within the Kabbalah has

worked its yeast in their minds. This to a great extent mirrors the Galatian

problem; those who have delved into traditional Judaism and are incorporating

its practices into their supposed Messianic lifestyle should return to their Biblical

roots and Torah. Any practice that cannot be Scripturally defended (like 'formal'

conversion rituals) needs to be examined.

OBSTACLES PREVENTING THE RESTORATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

In observing current world affairs one daily see on television channels the reality

of the time one is living in: wars, rumours of wars with its devastating impact on

the innocent, famine, flood, fires, earthquakes, crime spiralling out of control,

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diseases, breakdown of families and society and incest; people developed the

mindset that God has become obsolete. The status of world affairs can prove to

be an obstacle or challenge in restoring the Person of the Holy Spirit, if He was

dependant on a human beings.

• The lack of knowledge is the one challenge or obstacle preventing the

restoring of the Person of the Holy Spirit back to the Two Households. In

Chapter Two, the causes for the falling away were deliberated and sub -

divided into different categories, they are the historical and current realities,

but they are not strange to the Spirit, Who has dealt with humankind’s

traditions from the beginning of time. In addressing the lack of knowledge,

the discerning Believer should reassess their spiritual position. One is not to

consider the said circumstances, but to consider YHWH, Who is beyond what

man has done to himself. Then said Jeremiah, O Lord, my Strength and my

Stronghold, and my Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations

come from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have

inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things in which

there is no profit, Jer 16:19.

Gentiles as well as Israelites will have to acknowledge that their fathers led

them astray regarding things of no profit and in the serving of idols or man-

made traditions, Rom 1:18-32. It is noticeable that in their Books many of

the prophets spoke of the Gentiles as being blessed with Israel in the day of

their final restoration under the Messiah; Isa 11:10; Isai 42:1,6; Isa 49:6,22;

Isa 54:3; Isa 60:3-5,11,16; Isa 61:6-9; Isa 62:2; Isa 66:12,19; Mal 1:11. The

Gentiles will get to know Elohim along with Israel, Jer 16:21.

• In South Africa, as well as in Israel, the Jewish community is a closed

community to Christians; who historically perpetrated their persecution. It

was not possible to investigate the significant relationship between the Two

Households as one need to involve the Jewish community more actively. It is

an intricate and difficult process as they are a close-knit community and not

open for scrutiny, suspicious of any enquiries. Therefore, the researcher had

to rely mostly on the internet for information, which leaves a margin for

error in the sources consulted. Many Rabbis were prepared to teach us, as

Yudah is the Lawgiver.

• The time of Jacobs Trouble (Jer 30:7) has come and there is a marked falling

from the Statutes of the living God. Every word the Tanach prophets and the

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Messiah, prophesied about the end-times are happening, now in this time.

There is a dire need for Divine Intervention in world affairs, not only world

affairs, but also in the Church estranged from the Statutes of the living God.

For the Jew first, then the Greek will experience persecution in the very near

future. There is a false sense of security amongst Christians that they are

safe, because they are Christians. The rising anti-Semitism will spill over to

authentic believers, especially those who seek to live according to their

Hebraic Root and Torah lifestyle.

The research was done on the life and ministry of Yahshua Himself as He

modelled, through His ministry on the earth, how to function in the Fivefold

Office as well as every gifting of the Ruach Himself. Yahshua, through his Torah

lifestyle demonstrated a perfect model for a life Holy, YHWH pleasing lifestyle.

The dispensation in which one lives has little to do with this, as ones mindset is

the determining factor. Inferring the results back to the Church, Messianic

Believers, the Truth seekers, can best be achieved by setting up an apostolic

model, based on the Scriptures and as modelled by Yahshua and that is why

Chapter 4 was written!

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RESTORATION HEBRAIC ROOT LEGACY

In order to understand what is to be restored, we must make a careful, detailed

research of Scripture and history to determine what has been lost, damaged, or is

still intact – before restoration can be initiated. Restoration is more than an

academic investigation; restoration is a vision and a work that is accomplished by

the Holy Spirit through the process of Divine Revelation.

WHERE DID ALL THIS RESEARCH LEAD TO? SHARING THE RESULTS WITH YOU:

MAY IT LEAD TO RESTORATION

The anticipated results of this research have absolutely surpassed my

expectations! The research became a learning curve, and an intense desire

developed that the Body Corporate will benefit from this information, and that it

will lead to reconciliation in the Two Households of YHWH, our Elohim. The

Hebraic versus the Hellenistic Westernised mindset need to be altered in order to

comprehend the completeness of this research.

The restoration of all things can be confusing if you do not know what ALL things

are. In view of the aforementioned research performed on the apostate

condition of the Church, (and the causes leading thereto), you have become

aware of the quandary in which the Church has landed after 2000 years. The

present results are significant and the subsequent analysing of all the various root

causes for the apostasy, has now become the objective of this research - the

Restoration of the Hebraic Legacy to the Westernised Church, the restoration of

the Two Households and the Apostolic Ministry of the Rauch HaKodesh.

I would like to share the results of all this research with you: Beginning with the

results pertaining to the current position of the Church, and not the apostasy

which is the symptom of the root problem, but the stance of the Church relating

to the Holy Spirit and her Hebraic Roots including the imminent grafting back into

the Olive tree (Judah).

In order to determine the relationship between Believers and the Ruach

HaKodesh, I presented a questionnaire (available) for completion to more than a

1000 people; nominal Christians, agnostics and authentic believers. When the

completed questionnaires were reviewed and the feedback analysed, certain

problem areas where identified and highlighted as follows:

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• That nominal Christians do not have a relationship with Him at all. They do

not understand His role or purpose in a Believer’s life;

• Spirit-filled believers, on the other hand, went glibly through the

questionnaire. They would answer in their own favour, measuring their Faith

Walk with YHWH and the Ruach to that of the Apostles: and according to

them their Faith walk compared well with the Apostle Paul and other

Apostles. Whilst researching the insignia or marks of an Apostle, the modern

day Christian dismally falls short of the Scriptural criteria; therefore the

question was not truthfully answered;

• Some Spirit-filled Christians, who claim that they pray in tongues experience

no power or results after praying in tongues, or became extremely self-

conscious and avoid speaking in tongues. This gift is perceived to be obsolete

and outdated! Whereas the Apostle Paul said, I speak in tongues more than

all of you! Paul taught the believers who speak tongues are demonstrating

YHWH’s power to the unbeliever. Paul did not come with convincing words

to the different assemblies, he came in the power of the Holy Spirit, with

signs and wonders following;

• Many claimed that they are on the same spiritual level as the Apostle Paul,

yet one do not see the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrated in the same

manner;

• Many believers only spoke in tongues on the day of their Holy Spirit baptism

and never again. Most are not sure “what happened to me?” wrong

question, it was Who filled them. The researcher saw a pattern of ignorance

regarding the actual infilling and thereafter functioning in the resulting gifts;

• One can therefore, safely conclude that there is insufficient teaching prior to

the baptism. People were actually afraid that they might do funny things or

lose control, unsure of what can be expected during the experience. Those

who received spontaneously, whilst in worship, did not question the

experience;

• Many claimed that a lack of personal devotion and time deprived them of a

more meaningful experience;

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• The majority of Healing School students acknowledged that an unholy

lifestyle is the foremost factor contributing to one not yielding to the Rauch

HaKodesh or to be utilised by Him;

• A good number of respondents and students were outspoken regarding the

jealousy, strive, gossip and in-fighting in the Church. They do not feel safe in

such an environment. Therefore, they were open to receive false doctrines

i.e. new-age teaching, and ultimately became churchless;

• Many criticised the questionnaire itself, saying that the solution of the

apostasy will not be found in the traditional churches and that I must look

for solutions outside the Church;

• Many claim that the Church has become seeker-sensitive or an

accommodating social club;

• The Church has developed a fear of man, afraid that their income would

diminish if the manipulating one is not appeased. Therefore, sin in the

Church is not addressed but tolerated;

• Students acknowledge once they start thinking with their carnal mind, they

move out of the Spirit into the natural realm and consequently, the anointing

of the Spirit lifts;

• Many claim persecutions when operating in the gifts of the Spirit, friends and

family members ridicule them, as the carnal natural person cannot

understand the things of the Spirit, as they do not have spiritual discernment;

• Quite a few commented on the fact that people proudly proclaim that they

move in the various gifts, but their personal lives are in disarray emotionally

and spiritually. This confuses the immature Christian and inhibits their

spiritual growth;

• Finally, some positive feedback was received as well: There is an inherent

hunger to research one’s Hebraic legacy. However, people are careful not to

fall into a legalistic trap, concerning the Torah and Jewish unscriptural

traditions – demonstrating a lack of knowledge.

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RESULTS: THE PERSON OF THE RUACH HAKODESH

The confirmed manifest Presence in the Tanach:

It is without a doubt the most rewarding experience to know that He was present

from the Beginning and will be there through all eternity. In reviewing the

literature;

• One finds the absolute uprooting the believers suffered through the lack of

knowledge pertaining to their Hebraic roots and legacy profoundly sad;

• The Great High Priest Yahshua, His tunic (Robe), the Urim and Thummim

(hidden behind the breastplate), and what it represents to the Believer are

all embedded in Him, is information which needs to be revealed to all

believers, and;

• To realise that the modern day believer does not hear the voice of YHWH as

distinctly as the Prophets in the Tanach did, and definitely not as plainly as

the first Spirit filled Believers, is sorrowful.

• The Westernised (Hellenistic) believer, who has not experienced or partook

in a Torah-based sacrificial ritual, when a lamb is offered unto YHWH, does

not understand the power of such a sacrifice, or the entailing ceremonial

duties, which lead to a Believer negating the most important role of the

Priestly service unto YHWH.

RESULTS: THE DECEPTION OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY

• In reviewing the relevant literature, the history of the early Church, the

steady decline into anti-Semitism, the persecution of the Jewish nation by

Christian and gentile alike, Replacement Theology had a devastating effect

on the Church – resulting in the falling away from the Hebraic Legacy and the

creation of an apostate Church. The Church born on the cross, empowered

in Jerusalem, through lies and deception, lost her power, her relationship

with the Holy Spirit; failed to cause a change in a sin sick world;

• The mystery of the Two Olive Trees is demystified. One of the most

interesting findings was that the Scriptural term Israel refers to the family

(mishpochah) of the Elohim of Israel and is likened to an olive tree. In this

allegory, Israel consists of the natural root of the olive tree (natural born

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Jews). The wild branches are those who have been grafted-in (non-Jews from

the nations and the lost Jewish (ten) Tribes who believe in the Elohim of

Israel and have accepted Yahshua as the Jewish Moshiach, Rom 11:13-26. As

long as there is a sun, moon and stars in the heavens, the natural root

(natural born Jews) will remain a part of the olive tree of the YHWH of Israel,

Jer 31:35-37. One tree is the 12 tribes of Israel, and the other is the Gentile

nations that believe on Yahshua.

• The present study was designed to determine the effect of Replacement

Theology on the Church and the resulting Apostasy, and it is confirmed

without a shadow of doubt that Replacement Theology is the single most

contributing factor to the animosity between the Two Households.

• The issue of incorrect or manipulated Bible translations has been

controversial and the cause of many disputed subjects within the field of

Replacement Theology. Bible scholars have missed enormous amounts of

information in both the Tanach and Messianic Scriptures due to lack of

knowledge of the Hebrew language and ethos. Scholars have forsaken the

Hebrew Scriptures for English translations that cannot translate completely

or adequately the meaning of the Hebrew text. There is a fundamental

difference between Eastern Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Western

languages such as Greek and English.

RESULTS: EVERY BISHOP IS NOW AN APOSTLE

One unanticipated find was that due to a total lack of knowledge regarding the

gifts of the Spirit as well the Five-fold ministry, self-appointed ministers who do

know (but not understanding), the gifts of the Spirit utilise them for own gain. It

is the experience of the author that every person who plants a little Church in a

school classroom calls himself an apostle. In itself there is nothing wrong with a

Church in a school classroom, but the self-appointed Bishops are not anointed

with the Ruach HaKodesh; and they cannot function in the gifts of the Spirit,

therefore, perpetrating many false doctrines to naïve ignorant lay people.

One does not find the marks or insignia of an apostle in their ministry; in fact,

they have not grown into such a position and are definitely not yet appointed by

YHWH to such an Office. This is not negating their mission, rather a call for them

to surrender to the authority of one who has already grown into that position,

until YHWH approves them. Once an Apostle or Bishop’s life bears the marks or

insignia of an Apostle, imitating Yahshua the Apostle and High Priest of the

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Hebraic Church, may then call themselves apostles - until then they are

evangelists or shepherds.

RESULTS: THE LOST LEGACY OF THE HEBRAIC CHURCH THROUGH BETRAYAL

• YHWH is the originator of the Judaic worship system on the earth; He

introduced to Moses the Torah and the desired perfect model of worship –

patterned after the Heavenly format. The Jewish Household altered this form

of worship into rituals and traditions; forming traditions eventually called

Oral Law or the Talmud, founded on the Prescripts that YHWH gave in the

Desert. The Israelites lived according to the letter of the Law, not the Spirit.

When YHWH sent Yahshua to the earth, he did not revoke the Judaic

worship system; Yahshua came to clarify, demonstrate and fulfil a Torah

lifestyle to a Hebraic community without the constraints of human or man-

made tradition.

• The evidence from this study suggests that Christians has been raised

ignorant of the value of the Torah – which is the foundation of the entire

Renewed Covenant. Church Fathers and Christianity has ignorantly

proclaimed the passing of the Torah and prophets because in their limited

understanding, they assume that all the Torah and the prophets have

already been fulfilled and obedience to the Torah is bondage, they are all

under grace. Not understanding Torah and freedom in Scriptural context.

• Moreover, the modern day Church lacks knowledge of His worship format as

practised in Heaven, consequently, contributing to the misunderstanding of

their roles as priests and kings, their duties and authority, and therefore, not

fulfilling their priestly role unto the living God. The easiest way to conceal

this ignorance, is to their detriment betray the Jewish connection.

• The current study found a strong relationship between the apostate Church

and anti-Semitism; a church that deviated from the foundation ordained by

Yahshua and the Apostles. Yahshua has proclaimed 2,000 years ago, I tell

you this: you are Kefa, (which means Rock) and on this rock (statement that

Yahshua is the Messiah) I will build my Community, and the gates of Sh'ol will

not overcome it, Mat 16:18; declaring that His Community or Assembly

would never become extinct. There is also a significant difference between

the Church birthed in the Book of Acts and the modern day Church. Many

people profess Christianity; they claim to be members of The Church

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Yahshua founded. Furthermore, modern day Christianity is a divided religion,

composed of hundreds of denominations, schisms and traditions, (to a great

extent the same as the Hebraic family with the Torah, i.e. the Ultra,

Orthodox and Reformed sects within the Judean household).

• Through the centuries, most denominations have assimilated many non-

Scriptural traditions, (philosophical, cultural and religious) into their

teachings and practices, initiating even more variations. It is evident that the

Christianity one see today is not the Assembly Yahshua founded and

empowered on that Feast of Shavuot. The words the gates of hell shall not

prevail against it did not imply, or guarantee that the believers would not be

misled or deceived. He specifically warned them that false saviours and

prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, and if possible,

even the elect, Mar 13:22. Believers had to stay in His Words and teaching

them to obey all the commands I have taught you. Church history has

indisputably proven the deception of the Believers and consequent betrayal

of their Hebraic Legacy.

• The Feasts of YHWH, and the Feast of Pentecost per sé, the Shavuot, is the

direct link to the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Yahshua, through His Ruach

HaKodesh inspired the Apostle Paul to explain the crucial importance of

receiving the Holy Spirit, and in the process becoming a truly empowered

member of His community. “But you are not living the life of the flesh, you

are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within

you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit

of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of

God. But if Messiah is in you, the body is dead, in regard to sin; and the Spirit

is alive in regard to righteousness. And if the Spirit of YHWH, who raised

Adon Messiah from the dead, dwelleth in you; he who raised our Adon

Messiah from the dead, will also vivify your dead bodies, because of his Spirit

that dwelleth in you Rom 8:9-11.

• Analysing the Church Yahshua built, one sees how the English word Church is

employed in the King James Bible. Throughout Scriptures, Church and

congregation refer to people, never a building. The concept of people

assembling to learn the teachings of YHWH is embedded in both the

Covenants. It is closely associated with one of the Ten Commandments, the

law concerning the Sabbath. The Jews assembled every Sabbath as a

congregation (Holy convocation) to hear the Torah. The equivalent concept,

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a congregation of believers assembling to hear YHWH’s Word, was practiced

by the earliest Christians, Act 11:26. The Church then, is comprised of

followers of Yahshua who gather to hear the Word of YHWH.

• Caesar Constantine mandated worship on a Sunday by the Council of Nicaea

in about 375 A.D., and the common practice has been to follow the Directive

of the Catholic Church ever since, initiating the Great Apostasy from Hebraic

Roots – and resultant anti-Semitism and betrayal of the Jewish Nation.

• Due to the negation of the Hebraic Heritage, believers do not understand the

significance of YHWH’s Calendar and Feasts, therefore, does not observe

them. It seems that the concept Eternal Statute or Eternal Covenant have no

impact on believers, as it is not part of the western ethos or culture.

Nonetheless, it is a Divine Statute which by its very nature defies human

understanding, Elohim, the Creator, Who is the Author of The Law (Torah),

persuades believers to expound upon His Torah, and to find as much

meaning and explanation as one’s understanding allows; for His glory, and

for the honour of His Word and Name.

• The fulfillment of end-time prophecies is another reason for the apostasy.

Yahshua and the Apostles have at length forewarned the Church of the

perverted behaviour of the human-race at the close of this dispensation.

Yahshua specifically said the last days will be as in the days of Noah just prior

to His return, The Arrival of the Son of Man will take place in times like

Noah's; evil will abound, sin will abound.

RESULTS: CONVERTING TO JUDAISM: DO GENTILE BELIEVERS NEED TO CONVERT

TO JUDAISM?

• This study did not find valid reasons for converting to Judaism per sé. This

rather contradictory result may be because the Rabbis fear an influx of

Messianic believers into Israel, and would therefore, withstand any form of

conversion to Judaism. Many Gentiles within the Hebraic community are

considering conversion to Judaism, but would not submit to Rabbinical

authority.

• Conversion implies a change in a belief system, from one belief system to a

different belief system. To convert to Messianic Judaism would be to convert

to a community in which one was already a member (through faith); to

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convert to traditional Judaism would be to deny one's faith in Yahshua (or at

least, deny the sufficiency of Yahshua alone). In discussions on Gentile

conversion, it seems the issue is less about belief systems; it is more an

attempt to become a Jew. The Apostle Paul explained that because of

mainstream Israel's rejection of Messiah, non-Israelites (wild olive branches)

who accept Yahshua, have been given a place in Israel's cultivated olive tree

and Commonwealth.

• The Gentile nations had no Messiah, no part in the Commonwealth of Israel,

no covenant, no hope, and no living YHWH. However, Elohim planned to use

Yahshua to bring the believing Gentiles into the Commonwealth of Israel; to

share their covenant, their Eloah, and their hope and in the commonwealth.

Christians seeking prosperity need to ponder on the Commonwealth waiting

for them, once they are in the Hebraic fold. Yahshua abolished the enmity

that had been between the Covenant nation and Gentiles by bringing them

together and forming one new man; establishing a theme of unity - that

Jewish and Gentile believers are one – by His Blood. No ritual is prescribed,

and no conversion process is mandated. YHWH is bringing the Gentiles into

His people simply for their belief in Yahshua HaMashiach, through the power

of the Ruach HaKodesh.

• Many Gentile believers today, in their search for the Hebraic Root of the

Christian faith are adopting traditional Jewish ways not mandated by

Scripture. The conventional Oral Law of Judaism contains conversion rituals

and many Hebraic Root Gentiles are attempting to graft those beliefs into

Messianic Judaism. Torah never commands any ritualised conversion of

Gentiles! However, Pharisaic Judaism does whilst interpreting the Torah

through legalism. Its members are placed under bondage; but Yahshua freed

all from legalism and the bondage of the works of the Law. The Gentiles are

grafted in by Faith in Yahshua.

• To convert to Judaism is a matter of personal choice.

THE RESTORATION: YAHSHUA THE APOSTLE AS REFORMER

Prof Liebenberg, The Rape of the Torah (2009) stated that Restorationism is

composed of various unrelated churches that believe they are restoring the

original version of Christianity and not as reforming a Christian Church

continuously existed from the times of Yahshua. They feel that the other three

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divisions of Christianity have introduced a serious defect into Christianity, which is

known as the Great Apostasy. YHWH did not replace Judaism with Christianity.

He sent Yahshua, the Reformer to the earth to bring perfection to the Jewish

faith and to extend that faith to all humankind.

The faith or the first century church was Judaism, perfected by a new Covenant, a

Judaeo-Christianity. Yahshua achieved with this Reformation of Judaism the

reshaping of the essence of YHWH’s ancient religion, not the destruction of that

system. Heb 9:10 clearly outlines that the Reformer, Yahshua, perfected forever

YHWH’s religion through the introduction of His Own Blood, sealing a Covenant

with it, and then became the author and finisher of the Christian faith.

• By His own admission, Yahshua did not come to abolish the Law or Judaism,

but He came to perfect the one faith. He came as a Reformer, but His

reformation was actually his aspiration to return Judaism to its founding

principles. The atonement on the Cross was the foundation or building

blocks of the New Covenant which Yahshua brought to Judaism. In the

Tanach, the gifts and sacrifices concerned only the foods and drinks, various

washings and fleshly ordinances and they were imposed on Israel until the

time of reformation, Heb 9:10. This sacrifice perfected Judaism and extended

it to all men, providing eternal life to all who believes. This new order of

Judaism eventually became the corner stone for the Christian faith. The

rabbis understood that the Messiah would come to change the Torah in

order to complete it. Yahshua changed for them, a burdensome religion;

into an exciting Holy Spirit- filled lifestyle.

• In demonstrating the Ministry of Reconciliation and Reformation, Yahshua,

revealed the true nature of YHWH. He verified that YHWH does not discard

what He has done in one dispensation and do a very different thing in

another, He is YHWH and He changes not, He is immutable. He instated

Judaism, removed all the human trimmings (Oral Law and traditions) in

Yahshua and gave the Perfect. Therefore, YHWH in this dispensation, once

again, sends His Reformer in the Person of His Ruach HaKodesh to remove

2000-year-old Church instilled customs from the Christian faith and restore it

to authentic Judaism in Yahshua. Yahshua is currently fulfilling His role as

Reformer in Israel as well, as He is restoring the nation of Israel to the Holy

Land and according to Amos 9:15, they have taken up permanent residence

and will not be removed from the land, they will stay until the Messiah sets

up His imminent Messianic Rulership.

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DEVELOPING THE APOSTOLIC LEADERSHIP

It is a challenge, according to the Westernised mindset to hand the reigns back to

Yahshua, the Apostle and High Priest of the Hebraic Apostolic Assembly, as

Westerners prefer to be in command of their own destiny; their cultures

especially value individual independence. However, the beginning of sorrows has

begun as judgement for the nations, and humans cannot control the forces of

YHWH, which are called natural disasters. Disasters such as earthquakes,

mudslides, tsunamis, drought, famine, wars and rumour of wars, are indicative of

the last days. With the intention of creating a renewed awareness of His

Apostolic Leadership, as Head of the Hebraic Church, one does not want fear for

the things to come to be the decisive factor in turning to Yahshua – but true

repentance:

• True repentance ought to come from the Jew first, then the Greek! As both

Households pray, confessing their sin of pride, arrogance and disobedience

to YHWH, making supplications for mercy. Each believer needs to ask the

Spirit of Prayer and Supplication to stir them to prayer, begging forgiveness

for grieving and offending His Rauch HaKodesh, and to confess the sin of

accepting everything as God honest truth without enquiring.

• True repentance ought to come from the House of Judah for not ministering

as the royal priesthood unto the nations.

• True repentance ought to come from the House of Israel for persecuting

their Hebraic family. They need to pray and make supplication for a mindset

change from them and us to we are one in YHWH by the power of the Ruach.

The findings of the current study are consistent with those of Yair Davidiy and

Rabbi Feld (2007) who explained that due to the Two Households lack of

unification neither of the two sides were able to carry out their own peculiar

function as they should have. Both sides are lacking and inadequate. The need

each other and the rest of humankind need them. Eventually reunification will

take place and the Prophecy of the Two Sticks and Two Olive Trees fulfilled.

Yahshua in the Office as an Apostle: Setting the Leadership Standard or Model

in the Apostolic Office

When one studies the criteria for Apostleship, it can only, but be compared with

the conduct of Messiah Yahshua in the Apostolic Office. SO then, brethren,

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consecrated and set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling,

[thoughtfully and attentively] Consider Jesus, The Apostle and High Priest Whom

we confessed [as ours when we embraced the Christian faith].[See how] faithful

He was to Him Who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses was also

faithful in the whole house [of God]. But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over

His [own father's] house as a son [and master of it]. And it is we who are [now

members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant

confidence and sense of triumph in our hope in Christ, Heb 3:1:6.

The word consider (katanoeo) literally means, to direct one’s whole mind to an

object, to immerse oneself in it and hence to apprehend it in its whole compass

(Wuest Expanded Translation). To consider Yahshua, is to study His lifestyle; His

relationships; disciples and followers, His Worship of YHWH, His prayer life, the

keys to the success of His ministry, His walk with the Set Apart Spirit and finally

His death as a martyr. Consider Him being faithful over His Own Fathers house as

a Son and His faithfulness over every soul that came into the Truth. The only

individual that was lost was the son of perdition. Now, if a person says, I am an

Apostle of YHWH, that one first has to measure himself to the Standard set by

Yahshua, not forgetting that YHWH does the recommending!

Firstly, when a person says he is called into the Apostolic Office, he ought to

know that he should be Holy (set apart by the Holy (Set-Apart) Sprit of YHWH, as

this is a Heavenly Calling; and with this calling comes great responsibilities;

furthermore, only the Ruach can empower one to live according to the

STANDARD as set; and modelled by Yahshua.

RESTORING THE TWO HOUSES UNDER APOSTOLIC LEADERSHIP

As both Households received the gift (Person) of the Ruach HaKodesh, the Jew

first and then the Greek, they both need to come to unity in the Spirit, through

the work of Messiah who broke down the dividing wall, For Christ himself has

made Peace Between Us Jews And You Gentiles By Making Us All One People.

He has broken down the wall of hostility that used to separate us. By his death he

ended the whole System of Jewish Law that excluded the Gentiles. His purpose

was to make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new

person from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups

to God by means of his death, and our hostility toward each other was put to

death. He has brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far

away from him, and to us Jews who were near. Now all of us, both Jews and

Gentiles, may come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what

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Christ has done for us. So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and

foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members

of God's family. We are his house, built on the Foundation of the Apostles and

the Prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself, Eph 2:14-20.

The Apostle Paul specifically spoke about (us) Jews and (you) Gentiles; that was

part of the hostility and division. The time has come for both Households to take

responsibility for the relationship with YHWH. Yahshua broke down the system of

Jewish Law that basically excluded the Gentiles and included them into the family

and Commonwealth of YHWH.

The more one discovers the true Hebraic Root of the Christian faith, the more a

person will be challenged to live according to the Scriptures; You Gentiles need

to align themselves with their Hebraic Legacy, a legacy that one cannot be

ashamed of, the Messiah being of Jewish descent. The Apostolic Church should

not become a Legalistic entity again, but need to walk in the Law of Liberty,

Freedom and Grace – without sin and without the confines of traditions and

rituals – with the Ruach HaKodesh heading the Church. Central to this process of

restoration and reformation is the renewal of the believers’ mindset and

circumcision of their hearts. Once again, consider the definition of Liberty!

The only way to break a tradition is to teach the Truth; then encourage

repentance that initiates restoration. Permit the Rauch HaKodesh to resume the

Apostolic Leadership of the 21st

Century Hebraic Church, by living in and through

the Believer, who exercises their authority. The modern day believer can be

equated with Abraham who came from a pagan, idol-worshipping culture, and

YHWH replaced it with a Holiness Covenant lifestyle. Therefore, the pagan culture

(in the Church) needs to be replaced with a Torah-based Holy Spirit lifestyle. The

newly born-again believer becomes a spiritual creation; and in the process

receives Guidelines (Torah) to life by – a lifestyle that will be pleasing unto the

very YHWH that called them. This does not mean circumcision or conversion to

Judaism; it means circumcision of the heart. The greatness of Israel is her ability

to adhere to laws that have no explanation; the Israeli lives by faith in the Word

of YHWH; they trust His immutable Word, unlike the western minded believers

who think logically.

RESTORATION: HEBRAIC COMMUNITY MODEL ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF

ACTS

History has proven that human driven governance lead to disasters, including war

and famine, which always end in failure. The human race will continue to be

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poorly governed no matter which party is in power – resulting in humanity’s

downward spiral and apostasy from the living Elohim. Humanity desperately

needs YHWH to set up His Theocratic Governance on the earth, to rule all the

nations according to His system, as outlined in the Torah. Messiah Yahshua knew

this, thus the prayer Thy Kingdom come! Soon the cry, (Rev 11:15) the kingdoms

of this world have become The Kingdom of our Elohim and of His Messiah, and He

shall reign forever and ever will be heard on the face of the earth.

The finding that the world is in an irreversible downward spiral, heading for

destruction and Divine Judgement, necessitates the development of Hebraic

Communities, as well as transit stations for Jews, who will be making forced

Aliyah to Israel. (This is an important issue for future research). The mounting

anti-Semitism calls for preparation to assist the Household of Judah and the

restoration of the Two Olive Trees.

A word of warning to Messianic Believers who are considering moving into such a

community: It is recommended that before one becomes a member and moves

to an intentional Hebraic community, they should first investigate the living

conditions as well as their theology or doctrine. It is easy to form a religious cult

where there are strong leaders. One has to discern the spirit of any community.

Although, many, after spending time within the traditional Jewish or Messianic

communities return from such a community with strange ideas about the need

for conversion. Talmudic teachings, and a fascination for the secrets of Jewish

mysticism hidden within the Kabbalah, influenced their decisions. A community

must live by the Spirit of the living Elohim, anything else is to the detriment of the

people, and has disastrous consequences.

As believers gain understanding of their Hebraic Legacy, the root of their faith in

a Hebrew (Jewish) Messiah Yahshua, they have found that their lifestyle begins to

be transformed from the Western custom, they develop a diametrically opposed

(to the norm) focus and ethos and observe a distinctly different calendar (within

a Westernised culture in an African country!). For those who grew up learning

Torah from birth, is usually born into an observant community already

established around them. Their parents and other adults had made choices to be

near to those of similar belief and lifestyle. Traditionally, it would be unthinkable

for an Orthodox Jew to move anywhere that was not in close proximity to a

Torah observant community. Does YHWH really want Western Believers to move

into such a closed community and virtual isolation or does He want Believers to

be a Light to the world? There are many arguments for and against such a move,

which requires careful consideration; even more than the possible conversion to

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a Judaic religious system that does not originate from Yahshua as Messiah; the

living Torah.

Restoration: Olive Tree Intentional Messianic Community

The reconciliation between Judah (Jews) and Israel (Ten-Tribes), is the restoration

and unification of both Olive Trees, then literally, the Abarahamic Covenant

family becomes the largest nation on this entire planet, which is exactly what

YHWH said would happen - the fulfillment of His Covenants. There are many

confirming Scriptures, i.e. in the last few chapters of the Book of Ezekiel, which

indicate that each tribe will again be allocated their own tribal territory.

The Body of Yahshua and the world has moved into the drama of the end-time.

The reality of Daniel’s statute has entered into its closing stages; the dispensation

of iron and clay. The ultimate war between Good and evil is about to be set in

motion. One can equate the Two Households to Daniel’s image; they are partly

iron and partly clay, yet cannot exist without each other. Until Shiloh comes,

walking in the Ministry of Reconciliation is their escape from Elohim’s wrath –

both Households will be utilised in the Messianic Age; therefore, it is thus the will

of YHWH; their unification and reconciliation.

The book of Acts is the most inclusive manual to the development of a Hebraic

Community. One needs to realise that it will require an absolute cultural and

ethos change, especially for those who are new to the Hebraic Root Reformation

movement. This is not developing a Hebraic cult, it is the establishing of

Messianic Communities similar to the Orthodox Jewish sector in Israel and other

Jewish communities worldwide; a sheltered and secluded set-up. The Orthodox

Jews fully partake in life, work, family and friends, yet live according to the letter

of Torah. The Apostolic Leadership of Yahshua, through the Holy Ruach, will lead

the Messianic Community, as demonstrated by the believers in the book of Acts.

Establishing Judaic communities or neighbourhoods has its own unique identity

issues to deal with. One may be concerned about being stereotyped and viewed

differently as people seem to do with Amish or Mennonite communities.

Questions of authority and control vs. personal autonomy and choice are real

concerns, because wherever there is a strong commitment to an ideal, there is

the potential for abuse.

These concerns seem to overshadow the positive aspects of living more closely

associated with those of like faith. The decision to move into such a community

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must be a family decision and YHWH ordained. Once the family has collectively

agreed to move into such a community, there are concerns to be addressed for it

to be a successful – setting the model and pattern for intentional Hebraic

community living.

What does an Intentional Community consist of?

• Shared household by one or more families or individuals;

• Individual/family owned residences in a neighbourhood;

• Lodge type arrangements with private family quarters and public living

space;

• Dormitory style sleeping quarters with all food preparation and bathroom

facilities provided to be shared communally;

• Individual ownership of larger complex with board of directors;

• Joint purchase of property/living quarters;

• Community-based economic structure to earn an income, kibbutz system;

• Individuals pursue their own employment in order to make provision for

their household.

Financial and Legal Arrangements

• It is imperative that an individual retains autonomy for each person or

family’s finances, while cooperatively working together to cover all costs.

• Establishing a housing cooperative, which would be called a moshave in

Israel, rather than a kibbutz where people combine all of their income and

assets.

• Establishment and registration of a Section 21 Company, in order to obtain

non-profit status as the legal entity over the property, whether it would be

by lease or purchase. Residents would own a share in the Section 21

Company, but not the property itself. Bearing in mind that the concept non-

profit represents just that, leading to poverty, and dependence on the

goodwill of other people! The most financially viable option would be to

register a Closed Corporation – and legally pay to Caesar what is due to him -

taxes.

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• To establish a Financial Board appointed to balance the costs between family

units headed by a wage earner or one who is disabled and not gainfully

employed.

• Utilise the strengths and skills of the community in a way to develop

adequate income to sustain the intentional Hebraic community.

Personal Practical and Emotional Adjustments: Apprehensions

Intentional Community living is a concept new to the Western minded person.

Thus development of relationships, conflict resolution and other emotional

concerns ought to be addressed before a family takes the step on moving into

such a community. Living in such close proximity with others could place a

severe strain on Western minded people, used to doing their own thing.

Maintaining and developing relationships under these circumstances will

challenge a person emotionally and mentally.

The thought of downsizing of belongings from an entire house, or even from an

apartment is a matter of concern. Nevertheless, once committed to life the

intentional Observant lifestyle, a person has to be a visionary and realistic and

ask how much in the way of material possessions does a family really need,

considering the signs of the times? Even in this country one has to consider the

escalating anti-Semitism, which calls for preparation to assist the Household of

Judah for protection and the restoration of the Two Olive Trees,

www.setapartmingb.org/intentcommunity

Strategy for establishing a Hebraic Community

Firstly, one need to realise that the concept of a Hebraic community could be

foreign to most westerners, thus an awareness programme for such a project,

should be an educational assignment on its own. However, the Word says And

this is the secret plan: The Gentiles Have An Equal Share With The Jews in all the

riches inherited by God's children. Both groups have believed the Good News, and

both are part of the same body and enjoy together the promise of blessings, Eph

3:6. Thus both groups can partake in a Hebraic Community; they have become

one by the Blood of Yahshua, the dividing walls are down and have become part

of the Commonwealth of Israel.

Planning a strategy for the establishment of such a community would:

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• Entail involving the leadership of the Messianic believers; it is impossible for

one person alone to achieve the objective of such a calling.

• Secondly, it is important to analyse the challenges involved on project

management principles.

• Thirdly, Messianic leaders need to advocate the Restoration vision and

networking is of paramount importance. This is not about one’s own

ministry, but Kingdom building; preparing the way. There should be no

power struggle, but, like Yahshua, the servant-hood heart should be

prevalent, in line with the Acts Apostolic Church. This should include

believers from all occupations, and therefore the utmost respect for diversity

is mandatory, as unity lies in diversity; as YHWH commands His blessings

were there are unity and restoration.

• Fourthly, In order to create a forum for leaders to meet, it is suggested that a

Yeshiva, or participating Assembly, is utilised. These meetings are to be

conducted according to the Hebraic pattern in Synagogues. Each believer

will have a turn to make an input as in the council of many lie wisdom. The

Apostolic Assembly impacted the community with their brotherly love,

permitting Yahshua to live through them by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Fifthly, this Restoration is not for the Hebraic Church only! Rev 14:1 Then I

saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had

his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. Rev 7:4-8 And I

heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four

thousand, sealed from every tribe of ISRAELITES. Of the tribe of Judah, twelve

thousand were sealed: of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand: of the tribe

of Gad, twelve thousand: of the tribe of Ashur, twelve thousand: of the tribe

of Naphtali, twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand: of

the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand: of

the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand: of the tribe of Zebulon, twelve

thousand: of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin,

twelve thousand. There are 12,000 men from each tribe 144,000 in all.

When one studies Gematria, the numerical value of letters and words, both

12 and 144,000 are of significant value: 12 represents Perfect Government,

and 144,000 represents Spirit Guided life.

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Carefully consider this: authors like Yair Davidiy and Prof Liebenberg proved

that 10 of the 12 tribes are dispersed all over the world; they are in the

Diaspora. Therefore, the 144,000 are all over the world, sealed and chosen

by YHWH. As Judah and Benjamin are in Israel, (44,000) then 100,000 are

from Ten-Israel. In Yebamot 17A, it states The lost ten tribes were legally

classified as Gentiles to all extents, and purposes, even though they are

destined to return, at the moment they have the status of non-Jews, and that

is how it was prophesied their status would be, Rabbi

Koniuchowsky,www.yourarmstoisrel.com. Therefore, any form or branch of

Judaism that fails to recognise that Ephraim has become the last day’s

Gentiles of the earth, denies a basic and cardinal tenet of the biblical Jewish

faith!

YHWH cannot establish a Perfect Government, until those who are in

Government (Apostolic) office live a Spirit-guided life. Messianic believers are to

position themselves for such Governance.

WORSHIP IN A HEBRAIC COMMUNITY

• Most Western believers have chosen (grew up) to worship Jesus in a setting

that is largely devoid of any Jewish culture, the traditional church. There is,

however, a small but growing group of gentiles who have left the distorted

form of Christianity (calling it sun-worship) to join their Jewish brothers who

worship the Messiah of Israel in an original Judaic approach.

• Many of these gentiles live out their faith in a Torah based context,

celebrating in their own homes the Jewish holydays and YHWH’s Feasts

as fulfilled by Yahshua. They often keep Scriptural kashrut (Kosher laws) and

other customs freely and without being legalistic, as a way to worship

Messiah. Messianic Jews refrain from calling themselves Christians; which is

Greek terminology. The Hebraic term Messianic Jews is preferred.

• Messianic Jews recognise the seventh day, Saturday (Roman Saturn), as

being the Sabbath, Gen 2:1-3; Exo 20:8- I1; 32:12-17. The exact time of the

Sabbath can also be determined by the phases of the moon,

• Messianic Jews still observe the rite of circumcision. This is part of the

Avrahamic covenant for all the physical descendants of Abraham, Gen 17:9-

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14. This practice is not forced upon Gentiles, 1Cor 7:17-20, although there is

a marked increase in Gentile Believers undergoing circumcision.

• Messianic Jews observe the Jewish (and Biblical) High Holy Days prescribed

in Lev 23, which were ordained to be celebrated as a perpetual statute

throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places...forever, Lev 23:14;

21; 31; 41.

• Messianic Jews tend to observe a New Covenant lifestyle, I will put My Law

(Torah) within them and on their heart I will write it ,Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:8-

10. Torah is eternal and not abolished, Mat 5:17-19. Sin is defined as the

transgression of that Law, 1Joh 3:4.

• Lastly, it must be understood that one is saved by faith in the blood

atonement only as provided by Yahshua, one’s righteousness cannot be

obtained through good deeds, Isa 64:5-6; Ecc 7:20. The Council at Jerusalem

decided that the Gentiles did not have to convert to Judaism to believe in the

Jewish Messiah, Act 15:19-21; 28-19.

RESTORATION: THE URIM AND THUMMIM - BACK TO JERUSALEM

This finding has important implications for ascertaining the theory that soon the

existence of the Urim and Thummim will be revealed. In the Book of Nehemiah,

it was utilised to determine to which tribe a person belongs. The results of the

research proved that there is a significant correlation between the Rauch

HaKodesh and the Christ-Stone, specifically pertaining to the identity of the

different Jewish tribes. The obliteration of Jerusalem, the centuries of

persecutions and the Holocaust has caused the eradication of all records

regarding their lineage; thus destroying all possibilities of determining a lineage

through this avenue. This is where one sees the Supernatural wisdom and power

of YHWH at work. He has kept the Urim and Thummim for such a time as this!

There are seven (7) million Jews in Israel and approximately 14 million in the

world today, excluding the Lost 10 Tribes that cannot declare their Hebraic

descent with a certainty.

In their spirit, they sense their Israeli ancestry (Ten Tribes), yet most of them

have no idea from which tribe they originate. They are part of the remnant

prophesied to return to Zion. Some of them are Jews; some are of Issachar and

Zebulon, whilst others are of Ephraim, Manasseh, Naphtali, or Reuben. Hitherto

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all of them are guided by the Person of the Ruach HaKodesh, Who is leading

them back to the land of their fathers, Jerusalem, in Eretz Israel. However, the

Apostle Paul strongly advises us not to fall into the same trap as the Rabbis did:

occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These myths and

genealogies raise a lot of questions rather than promoting God's plan, which

centers in faith, 1Tim 1:4 But foolish questions, and stories of genealogies, and

the disputes and contests of the scribes, avoid: for there is no profit in them, and

they are vain, Tit 3:9. This means that we have to stay focussed, YHWH will

identify them at His good time and when it pleases Him.

It is therefore, conceivable, especially in view of the precedent that was set in the

days of Nehemiah, that the Urim and Thummim will be utilised again to assist in

the final RE-GATHERING and identification process! The Ruach HaKodesh, through

the Urim and Thummim, once again will play a great role in Israel by manifesting

His active Presence, by restoring the tribes.

RESTORATION OF A HEBRAIC MESSIANIC PRIESTHOOD

A Ministry of excellence – Comparing Tanach and Messianic Priestly criteria and

duties: YHWH, through a word of Wisdom, spoke through the mouth of Ezekiel

outlining and comparing the priestly duties and criteria of the Old and of the

future Temple. Each duty and criteria are linked to its New Testament equivalent

enlightening the Shadow with the Perfect:

� Tanach Priest duty: However, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok

continued to minister faithfully in the Temple when Israel abandoned me for

idols. These men will serve as my ministers. They will stand in my presence

and offer the fat and blood of the sacrifices, says the Sovereign LORD. They

are the ones who will enter my sanctuary and approach my table to serve

me. They are the ones who will fulfil all my requirements” Eze 44:15,16.

• Messianic Priest duty: The saying is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly]

seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer or Apostle), he desires an

excellent task (work). Now a bishop (Apostle) must give no grounds for

accusation but must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,

circumspect and temperate and self-controlled; [he must be] sensible and

well behaved and dignified and lead an orderly (disciplined) life; [he must be]

hospitable [showing love for and being a friend to the believers, especially

strangers or foreigners, and be] a capable and qualified teacher, Not given to

wine, not combative but gentle and considerate, not quarrelsome but

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forbearing and peaceable, and not a lover of money [insatiable for wealth

and ready to obtain it by questionable means]. He must rule his own

household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity,

commanding their respect in everyway and keeping them respectful. For if a

man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of

the church of God? He must not be a new convert, or he may [develop a

beclouded and stupid state of mind] as the result of pride [be blinded by

conceit, and] fall into the condemnation that the devil [once] did.

Furthermore, he must have a good reputation and be well thought of by

those outside [the church], lest he become involved in slander and incur

reproach and fall into the devil's trap. In like manner, the deacons [must be]

worthy of respect, not shifty and double-talkers but sincere in what they say,

not given to much wine, not greedy for base gain [craving wealth and

resorting to ignoble and dishonest methods of getting it]. They must possess

the mystic secret of the faith [Christian truth as hidden from ungodly men]

with a clear conscience. And let them also be tried and investigated and

proved first; then, if they turn out to be above reproach, let them serve [as

deacons. For those who perform well as deacons acquire a good standing for

themselves and also gain much confidence and freedom and boldness in the

faith which is [founded on and centers] in Christ Jesus. If I am detained, you

may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God,

which is the church of the living God, the pillar and stay (the prop and

support) of the Truth. And great and important and weighty, we confess, is

the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible

in human flesh, justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by

angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up

in glory, 1Tim 3:1 – 16.

� Tanach Priest duty: When they return to the outer courtyard where the

people are, they must take off the clothes they wear while ministering to me.

They must leave them in the sacred rooms and put on other clothes so they

do not harm the people by transmitting healing to them through this

clothing, Eze 44:19.

• Messianic Priest duty: The above mentioned healing happened during the

Tanach dispensation. Then Messiah Yahshua enters the earth as the Great

High Priest, and He allows them to touch Him and be made whole. This also

happened to Peter and Paul. Because of the Apostles' faithfulness and

priesthood healing anointing, sick people were brought into the streets on

beds and mats so that Peter's shadow might fall across some of them as he

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went by (Act 5:15). Mat 9:2; People would take handkerchiefs and aprons

that had touched Paul's skin to those who were sick. Their sicknesses would

be cured, and evil spirits would leave them, Act 19:12, and begged Him that

they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it

were made perfectly well Mat 14:36.

� Tanach Priest duty: the priests must never drink wine before entering the

inner courtyard, Eze 44:21.

• Messianic Priest duty: Don't get drunk with wine, because it makes you lose

control. Instead, keep on being filled with the Spirit, Eph 5:18. For an

overseer, as someone entrusted with God's affairs, must be blameless — he

must not be self-willed or quick-tempered, he must not drink excessively, get

into fights or be greedy for dishonest gain, Tit 1:7. I believe that we are in line

with the Word when I say that we cannot enter His Presence (inner

courtyard) with alcohol in our system.

� Tanach Priest duty: They may choose their wives only from among the

virgins of Israel or the widows of the priests. They may not marry other

widows or divorced women, Eze 44:22.

• Messianic Priest duty: A leader must be blameless, husband to one wife,

with believing children who do not have a reputation for being wild or

rebellious, Tit 1:6. The women likewise must be worthy of respect and

serious, not gossipers, but temperate and self-controlled, [thoroughly]

trustworthy in all things. Let deacons be the husbands of but one wife, and

let them manage [their] children and their own households well, 1Tim 3:11.

� Tanach Priest duty: They will teach My People the difference between what

is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean. The

true Torah was in his mouth, and no dishonesty was found on his lips; he

walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from sin. A

Cohen’s lips should safeguard knowledge, and people should seek Torah from

his mouth, because he is the messenger of Adonai-Tzva'ot. But you turned

away from the path, you caused many to fail in the Torah, you corrupted the

covenant of Levi, says Adonai-Tzva'ot. Mal 2:6-8.

• Messianic Priest duty: Mat 28:20, teaching them to observe all things that I

commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

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Amen. Eze 44:23, Mat 7:24-27; Deu 5:32, Deu 12:32; Act 2:42, Act 20:20,

21,27; 1Cor 11:2,23, 1Cor 14:37; Ephr4:11-17, Eph 4:20-32; Col 1:28; 1The

4:1,2; 2The 3:6-12; 1Tim 6:1-4; Tit 2:1-10; 1Pet 2:10-19; 2Pet 1:5-11, 2Pet

3:2; 1Joh2:3,4, 1Joh 3:19-24; Rev 22:14.

� Tanach Priest Duty: They will serve as judges to resolve any disagreements

among my people. Their decisions must be based on my regulations. (Torah)

And the priests themselves must obey my instructions and laws at all the

sacred festivals, and they will see to it that the Sabbath is set apart as a

holy day, Eze 22:26. This Moses, whom they refused saying, Who made thee

ruler and judge? Him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand

of the angel who appeared to him in the bush, Act 7:35.

• Messianic Priest duty: Therefore, select from among you, brothers, and

seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we

may appoint over this business, Act 6:3. Moses indeed said, A prophet shall

the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye

hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you, Act 3:22. Let the whole

house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus

whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ, Act 2:36. For the Son of man

is Lord of the Sabbath, Mat 12:8. I will also bless the Gentiles who commit

themselves to the LORD and serve him and love his Name, who worship him

and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of rest, and who have accepted his

Everlasting Covenant, Isa 56:6.

� Tanach Priests: Her leaders in it are like wolves tearing up the prey to shed

blood and destroy people, in order to benefit unjustly, Eze 22:27. Hear this,

please, leaders of the house of Ya`akov, rulers of the house of Isra'el, you who

abhor what is just and pervert anything that is right, who build up Tziyon

with blood and Yerushalayim with wickedness. Her leaders sell verdicts for

bribes, her cohanim teach for a price, her prophet’s divine for money — yet

they claim to rely on Adonai! Isn't Adonai here with us? They say, no evil can

come upon us, Mic 3:8-11.

� Modern day Priests and Leaders do the same as the Tanach prophets, giving

a quick personal word for selfish gain. The Renewed Covenant priest needs

to develop a Spirit of excellence, including self-discipline and to deny one-

self – to say no to one-self. Only then can they decree this Word of YHWH,

On the other hand, I am full of power by the Spirit of Adonai, full of justice

and full of might, to declare to Ya`akov his crime, to Isra'el his sin. On the

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other hand, I am full of power by the Spirit of Adonai, full of justice and full

of might, to declare to Ya`akov his crime, to Isra'el his sin. Thus the

Messianic priest needs to measure their behaviour against the criteria of the

Immutable Word before they venture into a ministry or teach a person, they

must ensure that their conscience is clear in the Presence of the Living

Elohim, 1Joh 3:19-21.

RESTORATION OF HIS NAME

The above mentioned are entirely null and void if His Name is not restored and

utilised to His full potential; no Restoration, no Model, no Recommendation will

have value without the immediate restoration of His Holy Name. When men

shrouded His Name with hypocrisy, utilising His Title God, His provision, power,

protection and above all, His Presence disappeared, and the veil descended on

their minds and spirit. But Sanctify the Lord the Messiah, in your Hearts. And be

ye ready for a vindication, before every one who demandeth of you an account of

the hope of your faith, 1Pet 3:15.

Restore and sanctify His Holy Name and the vindication will come - He for will

rebuke the devourer. Until we sanctify the Messiah in our hearts and truly

restore His Holy Name, the curse of Deuteronomy 28 will be active in Both

Households. Once His Holy Name, YHWH, is sanctified, unity and restoration will

come to both Households.

I (YHWH) will take the names of the Baals (lords) off her (His Bride's) lips, Hos

2:17,19. ...and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be

heard out of your mouth, Exo 23:13. Sanctify His Name in your heart.

CONCLUSION ON ALL THIS RESEARCH

• The 21st

Century Church compares poorly in workflow and functioning with

the Early Apostolic Church, regardless of the reality that Yahshua is alive and

well. It is important to note that human traditions and apathy have removed

His Presence from the Church, and He would therefore, receive the same

treatment from humankind, as during His first advent, only this time He is

coming to reign and rule from within Jerusalem for a thousand years.

• The single most unsettling observation to emerge from the research

information is the comparison of the spiritual blindness that applies to both

the Jews and the Gentiles. Two millennia of persecution, emotional pain,

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and hatred have clouded the minds of both Households. They are regarding

each other with suspicion and anger, yet know that they must find common

ground to minister reconciliation to each other. Both Households can read

the signs of the times and know that the time of the ingathering (Return) has

arrived; there is an expectation for the returning exiles in Israel, Jer 30:3,10;

Hos 3:5.

• That anti-Semitism is on the rise once again. Insufficient attention has been

paid, by the Church, per sé, regarding the impact of anti-Semitism on the

Church and her resulting failure and powerlessness. It was proven beyond

doubt as one of the predominant reasons for the apostate condition of the

Church. Therefore;

The Modern Day Church firmly supports Replacement Theology, due to lack of

knowledge regarding this false doctrine or ideology and their very possible Jewish

lineage;

� The Church is ignorant of her Hebraic roots, which perpetrates the sin of

racism against the Jewish nation. The stark reality being the activation of the

Deuteronomy 28 curse, which YHWH spoke over those that curse Israel, shall

be cursed! This curse is clearly identifiable within both Households;

� The Jewish nation is the custodians of the Scriptures; the fact that they are

truly in existence today is because of their obedience to guard the Scriptures

– and paid a dear price for this obligation;

� The Church claim it is at present her responsibility to guard the Scriptures,

has succeeded in the sense that it is currently available in most languages on

the earth - albeit not always accurately translated from the original

languages;

� In the centuries following the Reformation, the Jews adopted the languages

spoken in the countries to which they were dispersed and lived, although

never sacrificed the pure language in the process. In order to appreciate the

powerful Names of YHWH, one need to understand a small amount of

Hebrew and the meaning of the words, this will require a mindset change of

which the Truth will set one free from a religious Spirit. A fulfilled end-time

prophecy pertaining to Israel, (a modern day miracle); was the Israelites

being restored as a nation (1948) to her homeland, Israel!

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� Another end-time prophecy that runs concurrently with the return of the

Jewish nation to Israel, is the restoration of the Hebrew language; For then I

will convert the peoples to a pure language that all of them call in the name

of the Lord, to worship Him of one accord, Zep 3:9; Gen 11:1. In that day

(Messianic Age) there will be five (5 = grace) cities in the land of Egypt

(Africa), that speak the language of [the Hebrews of] Canaan and swear

allegiance to the Lord of hosts Isa 19:18. End-time prophecy: Learn to

understand the Hebrew language, in order to worship the living God in spirit

and in truth;

The results of this study have given an account of and the reasons for the

prevalent apostasy in the Church. The apostasy was investigated from a

westernised as well as a Hebraic mindset, depicting the opinions of Rabbis who

are not intimidated at voicing their opinions – with no regard for the feelings of

the Israeli Household (Ten Tribes), regarding Christians as arrogant. Refining

ones understanding of Judaism and the Restoration of all things, one had to

overcome the limitations of a Westernised mindset, versus a Hebraic outlook.

The westernised or Hellenistic attitude and culture being one of the major

limitations when one studies the Scriptures, being written by Jews for the Jew

first then the Greek;

This chapter demonstrated the findings as established and is not at all as the

Researcher aspirated it to be. These research results should have a profound

effect on the Body Corporate if they heed to the results and recommendations of

this research. And finally, let us move towards perfection. . . . . .

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The Eternal Ruach HaKodesh birthed this study. He revealed Himself by

highlighting Concepts, Statutes and Covenants that need to be observed with the

purpose of fulfilling the instructions and criteria given, in order for Him to be a

very present God, YHWH Shammah. By now, after careful considering the results

of this research, you have made some conclusions, which should concur with

mine, and therefore I would like to share some of my conclusions with you as

well. Please allow me to direct you through this final chapter.

The Tanach and Renewed Covenants is the foundation from which I worked and

therefore, persisted within the confines of the Word. This enabled me to study

the role and function of the Ruach HaKodesh from beginning to end, introducing

Him to the believer. Truly, Then, Elohim Overlooking the Times of Ignorance,

Now Strictly Commands All Men Everywhere To Repent, Act 17:30. Repent

therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may

come times of refreshing from the presence of YHWH, and that he may send

Yahshua the Messiah, who was ordained for you before whom heaven must

receive until the times of Restoration Of All Things, which Elohim spoke long ago

by the mouth of his holy prophets, Act 3:19-21.

Research is the process of elimination, whatever remains is the truth. YHWH

overlooked people's former ignorance about these things, but now He commands

everyone everywhere to turn away from idols and turn to him. For he has set a

day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he

proved to everyone who this is by raising Yahshua from the dead, Act 17:30,31.

Conclusion of the Divine Mandate for the Household of Judah (Jews)

The Israelites are the chosen people who fulfilled their calling and brought the

Gospel the world. They were chosen to:

• Be obedient to the Word if YHWH, and demonstrate to the world as a light

to the nations.

• Hear the Word of YHWH and record it – the Torah and Tanach then the

Renewed Covenant - the Bible. YHWH appointed them the Custodians of the

Word.

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• Be the human channel for the birth of the Messiah, who was born from a

virgin. The Messiah then administered and demonstrated the power of

YHWH to His generation. Then as the First Fruit to future generations;

Yahshua died, rose from the dead, ascended to heaven and will soon return

to Jerusalem, Israel.

• The Jewish people have fulfilled their role. The promise to the world through

Abraham was: in you will all the nations on the earth be blessed, Gen 12:3.

YHWH made an Everlasting Covenant between the land of Israel and the

Jewish people whom He must fulfill and complete, or His Word the Bible, will

be proven a lie, which it is not. YHWH will never annul His Word or forget His

ancient people. If God will not fulfil His promises to Israel, what guarantee

does the Believer have that He will fulfil His promises to the Church? Jer

31:35-37.

Conclusion: Divine Covenant still intact for the Household of Judah (Jews)

Are Jews still Jews, and is Israel still Israel in the New Testament? Do they have a

valid and active Covenant with YHWH, their Elohim? Absolutely, and the bible is

clear on this:

• The Jews are Israelites, not Gentiles, Rom 9:4.

• To Israel belong the Spirit of Sonship, the Glory, the Covenants, the

Torah, the worship and the promises, Rom 9:4. Each believer has receives

the Spirit of Sonship when they come into a relationship with YHWH, their

Elohim.

• The gifts and calling of YHWH for Israel are irrevocable, Rom 11:29.

• There are 77 references to Israel in the Renewed Covenant and none

of them refer to the Church. One cannot replace the word, Church,

where Israel is mentioned, as it renders the passage unreadable, e.g.,

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they

might be saved, Rom 10:1. If one places the word Church where Israel is

mentioned, then it is redundant. The Church is the body of saved believers,

so how could Paul's prayer be for the Church to be saved?

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• Psa 105 has a seven-fold affirmation of His promises of Canaan to Abraham.

This is an Everlasting promise, Gen 12:1-3. Jer 31:35-37 speaks of the

everlasting nature of His promises to and for Israel, the Jewish people,

promises that are sure as the sun that shines by day and the moon and stars

that glow in the night.

• The end-time prophecies, which speak of the return of the House of Jacob to

their land (Israel) and its restoration, overwhelmingly fulfilled in Israel and

the Jewish people in the past 120 years. (Isa 11:11-12; Eze 37:1-14; Eze 36;

Eze 35:1, Isa 43:5,6; Jer 16:14-16; Isa 60:9-11; Isa 49:22-23).

• The Gospel and Yahshua came to the Jews first, then the Greek, (Rom 2:9,10;

Mat 10:5-7;15:24). There is a distinction in roles between the two. Gal 3:28

says: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is

neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. This is speaking of

everyone's standing before Elohim being equal, because all are sinners saved

by His grace and the atoning work on the Cross. Nevertheless, ones role here

on earth is definitely distinct; e.g., men and women, mothers and fathers,

husbands and wives, etc. all have distinct roles to play. Likewise, Jews and

Gentiles have distinct roles to play.

� Recommendation Traditional Judaism: It is recommended that the

believers who have delved into traditional Judaism and are incorporating its

practices into their supposed Messianic lifestyle should return to their

Scriptural roots, if this community is not Holy Spirit, Torah based

communities. The leaders of such a community should be filled with the

Ruach HaKodesh in order to lead the members with wisdom. Considerably

more research needs to be done into the viability of such communities in this

modern era and especially when Christians decide to become Torah

Observant the mentioned communities worked in Biblical times, based on

the principles as found in the book of Acts, because of the very present

Ruach HaKodesh and living Yahshua.

� Recommendation: Conversion to Judaism: The emotive issue surrounding

circumcision amongst Observant Gentiles limited the current study on

possible conversion to Judaism. During class interviews, it became apparent

that there are those would consider, and have done circumcision.

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• Clearly, a person’s framework of reference plays a great role in deciding to

convert or not. Believers are taking more out of traditional Judaism than is

necessary; they are simply being deceived into legalism and man-made

traditions. It is recommended that one must count the cost before making

such a life-changing decision, and all role-players in the family ought to be

consulted prior to converting.

� Recommendation Ten-Israel: It is recommended that the books of Yair

Davidiy, Rabbi Feld and Prof W A Liebenberg on the dispersion of the Ten

Tribes into the nations, be read by all that may have a desire to trace their

Hebraic roots in order to take hold of their Hebraic Legacy.

� It is recommended that further research be undertaken in lieu of His

imminent return and the preparation of the Body for their assigned roles in

His Theocratic Government.

� Further research should be done to investigate the development of a

Hebraic, Torah based and Spirit led, intentional community. It is

recommended that a target group be identified (volunteers) who could

model this for the broader Church, whilst there is still time. It is suggested

that one communicate with the Jewish and Messianic Community within

South Africa.

INTRODUCING THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION

I have said all of the above in order to bring you to this point. These findings

suggest several courses of action for the Body Corporate:

• Firstly, to recognise that they have a Hebraic (Jewish) Saviour;

• That they have a debt of honour towards the Jewish nation;

• That they need to research their genealogy, and determine whether they

have a Jewish legacy, and therefore, inadvertently contributed to the

persecution of their blood brother, the Household of Judah;

• That restitution needs to be done to the Jewish nation as a whole;

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• The Household of Israel (Ten-Israel) need to initiate the Ministry of

Reconciliation towards the Household of Judah (the Jews);

• Rabbi Paul, under the unction of the Ruach HaKodesh, made this life

changing recommendation to the newly Born again believer, Therefore if any

person is [in-grafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new

creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has

passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! But all things are from

God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into

favour, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of

reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into

harmony with Him]. It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and

restoring the world to favour with Himself, not counting up and holding

against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us

the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favour) So we are Christ's

ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's

personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favour

[now offered you] and be reconciled to God. For our sake He made Christ

[virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might

become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the

righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in

right relationship with Him, by His goodness], 2Cor 5:17-21.

All are in agreement with the new creature concept as it deals with the past,

and as it brings forth certain blessings; the believer is the recipient. The next

verse immediately introduces the believer to a Spiritual duty sheet, which

contains the terminology The Ministry of Reconciliation; to reconcile man to

man, and man to YHWH, his Elohim.

• YHWH was in and through the process of reconciliation on the cross, working

through Messiah as the mediator. There can be no reconciliation if both

Households do not come in utmost repentance before the living God, who

gave Yahshua His Son, to reconcile man to Him. How can one resist such a

great salvation by not imitating the Supreme example of forgiveness and

reconciliation? Reconciliation is the process of finding a way that two belief

systems, that are seemingly opposed to each other, yet so similar, can

reconcile by finding the Emet or truth, and where they differ, in the process

find common ground; the Restoration of all Israel. This will mean that the

modern day Gentile Church needs to repent of the destruction of the past,

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moreover, realise that their Jewish Messiah expects them, as a Believer, to

LIVE the Ministry of Reconciliation, in order to become a natural Root.

The Gentile Church Grafted into her Hebraic Root through Repentance

The grafting in of the Gentile Church into the Hebraic Household is one of the

most controversial topics for Jew and Gentile alike. This topic is major source of

the age-old antagonism between the Two Households, sad to say that the

animosity stems mostly from the Gentile Church, who has the Replacement

Theology theory in their religious history. On the other hand, in this modern era,

relatively few people of Jewish descent believe that Yahshua is the Messiah of

Yisrael because so far they gave only been presented with a Hellenised Lawless

Christ named Jesus. The Jews have yet to experience the love of their Messiah

from Christians, who claims that Yahshua is the Messiah. Based upon history,

most Jews have an underlying suspicion and distrust of Christians. The Apostle

Paul wrote an important admonition, Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and

keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding

power of peace, Eph 4:3. By implication, Paul says that one has an active role to

play in order to guard the peace. The Church failed the Household of Judah, and

therefore, remained the wild olive! The author is of the opinion that once the

Church takes responsibility for the past through repentance, the Gardener

Yahshua, will do the grafting in, and the Person of the Ruach will be restored to

the Church, and the Olive Tree will bloom into fullness.

What is the Role of the Church in the Restoration process?

What does the final restoration of all things refer to and are there things that

need restoration? In Chapters One and Two, I investigated the various reasons

for the Apostasy in the Church i.e. Replacement Theology. The causes were

analysed in depth, and now I propose the only viable solution, Repentance and

Reconciliation. This is in order to restore the Apostolic authority of Yahshua in

the Person of the Ruach HaKodesh to His rightful place in the Apostolic Hebraic

Community.

The role of the 21st

Century Hebraic Church is:

• To the world, the Church is called to preach the Gospel to all nations and

make disciples, Mat 28:19-20; to love YHWH, our Elohim, with all of ones

heart, soul, mind and strength; and to love one’s neighbour as one self, Mar

12:30-31.

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• To the Jewish people, they are called to show the love of YHWH for the sake

of the Patriarchs, Rom 11:28, for without them the Gentile world would not

have had the Word of YHWH, nor Messiah Yahshua as Saviour, who was a

Jew, born in Israel. Believers are to live and demonstrate the mercy of

YHWH, Rom 11:31. They are to give material gifts to help them, Rom 15:27.

They are to pray for them and for Israel, Psa 122:6. They are to be the

watchman on the walls to protect them, Isa 62:6, 7. They are to assist with

the Aliyah (immigration) to Israel and the building up of Zion Isa 60:9-11; Jer

16:14-16; Isa 49:22-23.

YAHSHUA RESUMES HIS APOSTOLIC OFFICE

Before Yahshua can assume His Apostolic Leadership role on the earth again,

restoration needs to take place. YHWH is keeping Yahshua in heaven for a

reason, and this reason is humankind, or more aptly put, the Two Households of

YHWH, which are preventing the return of Messiah Yahshua. Now turn from your

sins and turn to God, so you can be cleansed of your sins. Then wonderful times of

refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will send Jesus your

Messiah to you again. For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final

restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his prophets, Act

3:19-23.

When Moses prophesied that YHWH will rise up a prophet like him, he was

prophesying the coming Messiah; Listen to Him or be cut of from the

commonwealth. Messiah came, and through His blood and the perfect work on

the cross, He worked at an eternal reconciliation between the two Houses.

When one looks into the natural, it seems an impossibility to reconcile; however,

the believers do not walk by sight but by faith! And with perfect faith YHWH will

not by power, nor by strength, but by His Ruach HaKodesh, break down the

mountain of human obstacles that are preventing the Restoration, Zec 4:6,7.

When one realise that the delayed return of Yahshua, are dependent on the

behaviour and unity between the Two Households, it becomes frightening clear

that YHWH had exercised patience for millennia. Nevertheless, the time has

come to implement the Restoration, for the sake of His Holy Name.

It is through repentance and living in the Ministry of Reconciliation that the

middle wall of division will finally crumble; setting off the return of Yahshua to

the earth; to take up His earthly Apostolic Office in Jerusalem, Israel, to rule and

reign over the nations. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of

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the former, says YHWH Tzva’ot (Lord of Hosts). And in this place I will give peace,

says YHWH Tzva’ot, Hag 2:9.

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GLOSSARY GLOSSARY GLOSSARY GLOSSARY

SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS

HEBREW TERMINOLOGY

• Hebrew Chosen: breastplate of Judgement attached to Robe of High Priest.

Choshen in Hebrew is used for the square breast-plate of the High Priest, in

which were set twelve precious stones, each being engraved with the name

of one of the sons of Jacob, Ruth Spencer, Jewish Faith and the Renewed

Covenant.

• Hebrew Kohen or The Priest

• Hebrew concept of Korban, just like Torah, is not translatable into English,

and “sacrifice” is utilised for lack of a better word.

• Hebrew Halakha legal or laws

• Hebrew Torah: YHWH Instruction, Direction and Protection

• Hebrew: YHWH Tetragrammaton: Greek term meaning the word of four

letters.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Definition Rebuttal: To prove that a statement or a charge made against

you is false. Longmans Exam Dictionary;

• To Renew, to remove something that is old, and put a new one in its place,

Longman Exam Dictionary;

• Term Replacement Theology: Christians believe they have replaced Israel in

the sight of YHWH;

• Defining the terminology Bosom or heart is most important in order to

clarify the summary of the Urim and Thummim. Vincent’s Word studies and

Webster (E-Sword Bible) made this statement: The expression Who is in the

bosom, who is, or the one being, is explained in two ways:

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� As a timeless present, expressing the inherent and eternal relation of the

Son to the Father;

� Bosom: To conceal; to hide from view. Bosom, in composition, implies

intimacy, affection and confidence; as a bosom-friend, an intimate or

confidential friend; bosom-lover, bosom-interest, bosom-secret. In such

phrases, bosom may be considered as an attribute equivalent to intimate,

confidential, dear.

• The terms Western World Church and Modern day Church will be utilised

interchangeably; referring to the church that evolved from the Hebraic

Church Yahshua planted at the Shavuot Feast, 2000 years ago;

• In order for Full Restoration to come to both the House of Judah (Judaism)

and the House of Israel (Christianity and Ten Tribes), both houses of YHWH

need to understand the Biblical terms church and Israel. In today’s world,

the term church is traditionally identified and associated with the House of

Israel (Christianity) while the term "Israel" is traditionally identified and

associated with the House of Judah Jews/Judaism). Eddy Chumney, Two

Houses; E-book.

• Falling Away: A falling away in Greek (Apostasia), to stand in seditious

opposition or open rebellion. Apostasia has been transliterated into the

English as apostasy and has come laden with the misconceived meaning a

falling away from the truth. In Greek literature Apostasia was used as

divorce which is indicated a betrayal against one’s covenant. It was to stand

in opposition to one’s spouse and not falling out of love.

• Harlot Church: Incorporating pagan worship systems into the Apostolic

Church.

• Hebraic Church: The word Church does not exist in the Hebrew language.

The translators who produced the Septuagint (the first Greek translation of

the Hebrew Tanakh completed about three hundred years before Yahshua’s

ministry) used the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew word lhq (qahal),

usually translated “congregation” or “assembly” in the KJV. Qahal does not

mean a building or a religious institution or organization either. The English

word “church” appears over one hundred times in the KJV, and each time it

is translated from the Greek word ekklesia (ekklesia, Strong’s #1577) a

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Greek word. The Greek word ekklesia does not mean church, but rather

assembly or congregation. Ekklesia is formed from two smaller words ek

(ek, Strong’s #1537), meaning “out of,” and kaleo (kaleo, Strong’s #2564),

meaning to call. Therefore, the word ekklesia literally means, called out,

scripturally, ekklesia does not mean a building or a religious institution or

organization.

• Meaning of Messianic Jewish: It is generally understood that being Jewish

means being a descendent of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and it implies being

a follower of Judaism and its practices. In another sense, it is applied

to anyone who has joined himself to the people of Israel through ritual

conversion, including circumcision for men. The term "Messianic" (i.e. of

Messiah or Christ) refers to anyone, Jew or gentile, who has chosen to

follow the Messiah Yahshua (Jesus). Scripturally, the term "gentile' refers to

someone who was born of non-Jewish parents and who did not identify

himself with Israel through ritual conversion and circumcision. Thus, a

Messianic gentile could be applied to anyone who was born of non-

Jewish parents and who is a follower of Yahshua.

• Gematria is a mystical approach to the interpretation of words and

numbers. The Rabbis explain that Gematria is a Hermeneutical system for

interpreting the words or phrases of the Torah (Hebrew Scriptures) on the

basis of numerical equivalents. According to Cabbala (Traditions) the world

was created through speech; as the name was spoken, the thing came into

being. Since the word spoken is composed of letters, and every letter

(Hebrew) of the was has a numerical equivalent, then two words having the

same value are considered as fundamentally related.

• Liberty: the freedom and right to do whatever you want without asking

permission or being afraid of authority, even if it offends or upset someone

(Longman Exam Dictionary).

• Paraphrase: an intentional re-wording to make a point. (Webster’s New

World Dictionary, Second Edition, p.1031.

• Perception: In philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, perception is

the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information.

The word "perception" comes from the Latin words perceptio, percipio, and

means "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with

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the mind or senses. What one perceives is a result of interplays between

past experiences, including one’s culture, and the interpretation of the

perceived.

• Sedition: conduct or speech which is in opposition to lawful authority, but

lacks an overt act that would constitute treason or rebellion.

• Torah and Tanach: when one speak of Torah, it is actually a reference to

two Torah’s which are one and the same: the Written Torah, known as the

Tanach (Torah, Nevi’im for prophets and Chetuvim for writings sometimes

called Old Covenant and the Oral Torah. Both are alluded to in YHWH’s

words to Moses come up to Me to the Mountain and I will give you the

Torah and the Commandments Exo 24:12. This provides for the explanation

of the many instances where the Torah refers to details which are not

included in the written text – as if one must be aware of these details from

some other source. These details can be found in the Oral Tradition, (Rabbi

Chaim Richman, Temple Institute; Israel).

• Ten-Israel refers to the “Lost Ten Tribes” dispersed all over the world.

• Tradition: It is important to understand that the word tradition can have at

least two different connotations, one positive (in the sense of divinely

transmitted truth), the other negative (in the sense of man-made religious

institutions or regulations). An example of the positive sense is Paul's

exhortation to the Thessalonians to keep the traditions which he delivered

to them (2The 3:6); an example of the negative sense is Yahshua's warning

in Mat 15:3 that the Pharisee's broke God's commandments for the sake of

their traditions, that is, the traditions of the elders.

• Urim and Thummim: Urim and Thummim are terms found exclusively in the

Old Testament. The etymology of אּורים and ּתּמים, can be found in several

Hebrew word references. Urim = “lights” 1) stones kept in a pouch on the

high-priest’s breastplate, used in determining Yahweh’s decision in certain

questions and issues. Thummim = perfections, that is, (technically) one of

the epithets of the objects in the high priest’s breastplate as an emblem of

complete Truth.

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