Sunday, December 18, 2011

What is the Roman Catholic Mass?

By Maria Merola אריאל 
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, December 9th 2017
http://www.DoublePortionInheritance.com/

The Dictionary definition for the word “Mass” tells us what the word actually means in Roman Catholicism:


http://www.Dictionary.com (Unabridged) Mass: noun The celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass   ( sometimes lowercase) a musical setting of certain parts of this service, as the Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.

Origin: before 900; Middle English masse, Old English mæsse; Vulgar Latin *messa, Late Latin missa, formally feminine of Latin missus, past participle of mittere to send, dismiss; perhaps extracted from a phrase in the service with missa est and a feminine subject.

There you have it! The Dictionary shows the definition of the Catholic Mass as a celebration of the Eucharist. But what exactly is the Eucharist?

As you can see by the illustration to the left, the Roman Catholic Eucharist wafer is a pagan idol! The Egyptian pagan priests placed these initials “I H S” on a round disc-shaped wafer for the pagan trinity of Isis, Horus & Set. The round wafer was to commemorate the sun-god and they ate it each year on December 25th believing that the sun-god was being reincarnated in them as they ate this wafer-god. They re-enacted the death of Nimrod on a “tree” on March 25th (Easter) and believed he would be reincarnated on December 25th. This re-enactment was called a “Mass” from where we derive the term “Massacre.”

Today, these same initials of I H S appear on the Catholic Eucharist Wafer. The Catholic Catechism teaches that the priest has the power to command “Christ” to come down from his throne and he has the authority to crucify him over and over again at each Catholic Mass. The Catechism states the following concerning Jesus Christ:

“At each mass, he performs the function of the victim anew...” See my other article entitled “Should You Be Merry About Christ-Mass?”

Pictured here to the right is a blasphemous idol called a “Crucifix” which keeps our Messiah perpetually dead on the cross! 

This crucifix pictures the pagan trinity of supposedly “Mary Queen of Heaven” (recycled from Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod); And on the left side a picture of the Heavenly Father who they claim is the husband of Miryam (Mary) and this supposedly makes up “The Holy Family” or the pagan Trinity of Isis, Horus & Set. Joseph is said to be the earthly representation of the Heavenly Father, but this Catholic Trinity secretly disguises a false pagan Trinity! 

The Catholic Trinity secretly disguises a different Trinity than what most Christians believe in:

The Pope as “The Holy Father,” Jesus as the pagan sun-god (a reincarnation of Tammuz), and Mary as the Holy Spirit. Hence, Isis (Mary), Horus (Jesus), Set (Pope/Father).

Pictured to the left is the original “Trinity” of the Father (Nimrod), the Mother (Semiramis), and the Son (Tammuz). The Roman Emperor Constantine borrowed this pagan myth and assimilated it to our Messiah. He renamed Nimrod “The Holy Father” (every Pope is supposedly a reincarnation of Nimrod the sun-god). The title “Pope” in Latin is Pappas meaning “Father” (Pater in Greek). 

Constantine also renamed Semiramis “Mary” or the Holy Spirit and he renamed Tammuz “H’Zeus” (pronounced Hay-zooz or Jesus). Our Messiah Yahuwshuwa (who many call Jesus) does not live inside of a round wafer,
nor does he dwell in a golden sun-burst called “The Monstrance.” 

In Ezekiel the 8th Chapter, the prophet was given a warning of those who were worshiping the pagan sun-god in the Temple of YaHuWaH. What he was shown is no different than what takes place in Roman Catholic Churches around the world to this day.

Ezekiel 8:

15 Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.

16 And he brought me into the inner court of YHWH's house, and, behold, at the door of the Temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the Temple of YHWH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

The Monstrance pictured below is a golden sun-burst! This is pagan sun-god worship disguised as worshiping the Messiah of Israel. The Monstrance is used to store the Eucharist wafer. Roman Catholicism inaccurately refers to this symbol of Baal worship as “The Ark of the Covenant.” Inside of this “Monstrance” is a glass window with the pagan sun-god wafer inside where the Vatican claims that it contains “J’Zeus” (Jesus). The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) explained to us that our Creator cannot live in objects made with human hands!  


Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwells not temples made with hands; as says the prophet. 

Acts 17:24 Elohiym that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Master of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands.

Even the gilded clip that holds the wafer is called “a lunette” because the Latin word for moon is luna, and it is shaped like a crescent moon like in the religion of Islam! Pictured is the flag of Islam which shows us that Roman Catholicism is another stream of Mystery Babylon Religion right along with Islam. In the ancient Mystery Religion of Semiramis & Nimrod, she called herself “the goddess of the moon” and Nimrod is called “the god of the sun” as well as “the god of the tree.” As you can see the flag of Islam pictures the symbolism for the Mystery Religion of Babylon featuring the moon and “the falling star” called Lucifer or the pagan sun-god. 

Pictured here is a book that I highly recommend entitled Understanding Roman Catholicism by Rick Jones. In this book you will be able to compare what is written in the scriptures to the Catholic Catechism and it shows us that the Catholic Catechism is indeed the religion of Jezebel that our Messiah warned us about in Revelation 2:20-23: 

“....Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer (allow) that woman Yeze’Baal (Jezebel), which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idolsAnd I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.


Transubstantiation


During the mass, priests allegedly have the power to supernaturally turn the bread and wine into the actual and literal body and blood of Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach (Jesus Christ):

“The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.” Pg. 347, #1376.

This Catechism quote reveals that the Catholic Church still adheres to this doctrine which was defined at the Council of Trent:

“At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ’s Body and Blood.” Pg. 336 # 1333

The Catechism even specifies when Messiah (Christ) comes into the Eucharist and how long He stays:

“The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.” Pg. 347 #1377

Since Catholicism is teaching members to partake in literal cannibalism, this doctrine requires serious examination. To begin with, we must determine this doctrine’s origin. Is it from Elohiym, or is it a tradition of men? Catholicism insists it is scriptural, citing the words of Yahuwshuwa  in the 6th chapter of John:

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:53-54 “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” 

Though this one verse does appear to teach cannibalism, if you read the entire passage in context, the meaning becomes clear. Right before making that statement, Yahuwshuwa said:

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:33-35 “... For the bread of Elohiym is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Yahuwshuwa said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.” 

This teaching is consistent with the rest of Scripture. Eternal life comes through believing in Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach, not eating His body. The Lord goes on to further clarify:

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life... 

Again, Yahuwshuwa points out that eternal life comes through believing in Him. When the Messiah’s disciples murmured at His words, Yahuwshuwa explained:

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:63 It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

Yahuwshuwa was talking spiritually, not physically. He was explaining that all life comes through faith in Him, not eating His body. Nowhere else in the Bible does Elohiym endorse cannibalism. In fact, Elohiym forbids the practice:

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.

Wayyikra (Leviticus) 17:12 “... No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood.” 

YaHuWaH Elohiym would never command His children to do something He had already forbidden.

The Biblical purpose

Shaul’s instructions in 1st Corinthians 11 shed even more light on this matter:

1st Corinthians 11:23-24 For I have received of the Master that which also I delivered unto you, That the Master Yahuwshuwa the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me

When Yahuwshuwa said, “Take, eat: this is my body,” He was not suggesting that they reach out and begin eating His literal body. To even suggest such is ridiculous. He was speaking spiritually about what He was about to accomplish on the cross.

Notice how that verse ends: “...this do in remembrance of me.” Observing the Master’s Supper is a remembrance of Messiaht’s work at Calvary, not a reenactment. The same is true of Messiah’s blood:

1st Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

Yahuwshuwa Himself taught the same lesson to his disciples at the Last Supper:

Luke 22:19 And he [Yahuwshuwa] took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

The Cup Full of Abominations & Filthiness

Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.


Since Transubstantiation is another unscriptural Catholic tradition of men, several more intriguing questions await an answer: 

Why does the Catholic Church deliberately take one verse of Scripture out of context and build a doctrine the Scriptures obviously does not teach? Why would the Catholic Church rather have you eating Elohiym than placing your faith in Him? Most importantly, can you knowingly partake in this practice now that you know the truth?

Ya’aqob (James) 4:17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Eucharist: Preserves from Sin


Does partaking of the Eucharist have power to cleanse Catholics from past sins and preserve them from future sins?

“For this reason the Eucharist cannot unite us to Christ without at the same time cleansing us from past sins and preserving us from future sins:” Pg. 351, #1393

“By the same charity that it enkindles in us, the Eucharist preserves us from future mortal sins.” Pg. 352, #1395

Once again, Elohiym’s Word and Catholic tradition couldn’t be farther apart. Regarding cleansing from past sins, the Bible declares that all sins are washed away through the blood of Yahuwshuwa Messiah:

1st Yahuwchanon (John) 1:7 “...the blood of Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 

Revelation 1:5 And from Yahuwchanon Mashiyach, who is the faithful witness...Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood

The Catechism strips away from Mashiyach the credit He alone deserves for cleansing people from their sins, and credits instead a wafer with accomplishing that task. Why is Yahuwshuwa demoted again?

1st Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Master Yahuwshuwa, and by the Spirit of our Elohiym.

Preserving from future sins

There is no scriptural evidence that eating a piece of bread will preserve anyone from future sins. This doctrine’s only practical function is to keep members returning to the Catholic Church to receive the Eucharist, in hopes that it will help preserve them from sin.

Aside from holding people in bondage to the church, there is little else such a practice can accomplish.

Though Elohiym’s Word does not endorse this practice, it does suggest a way you can protect yourself from sin:

Tehillim (Psalm) 119:11 Your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against you

Tehillim (Psalm) 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word

To preserve yourself from sin, Elohiym suggests that you read, memorize and obey the Scriptures. Curiously, the Catholic Church disagrees. It seems that the Catholic leadership would rather have you looking to the church for help than to Elohiym’s Word.

You must decide why:

Tehillim (Psalm) 121:7 YHWH shall preserve you from all evil... 

Tehillim (Psalm) 32:7 You art my hiding place; You shalt preserve me from trouble; You shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. 

2nd Timothy 4:18 And YHWH shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Awmane.

Conclusion

To cleanse you from past sins and protect you from future sins, Catholicism demands that you look to a piece of bread.

It is imperative that you understand that this tradition of men directly contradicts Elohiym’s Word. To obey this Catholic doctrine, you must reject Holy Scriptures.

Do you really want to do this?

Yahuwdah (Jude) 1:24-25 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise Elohiym our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Awmane.

Eucharist: Helps the Dead


Partaking of the Eucharist purportedly gives Catholics who are still alive an opportunity to help the dead:

“The Eucharistic sacrifice is also offered for the faithful departed who ‘have died in Christ but are not yet wholly purified, so that they may be able to enter into the light and peace of Christ.” Pg. 345, #1371

“In the Eucharist, the Church expresses her efficacious communion with the departed...” Pg. 420 #1689

This heart-tugging doctrine indoctrinates Roman Catholics with the belief that regularly receiving the Eucharist will help their departed loved ones reach heaven faster.

If this doctrine is of Elohiym, then you should obey it. But if it’s a tradition devised by men to keep people in bondage to a church, then it is a cruel and heartless method of controlling people. Let’s see what Elohiym says about it.

Never mentioned

You can search the Scriptures from beginning to end, but you will not find the Eucharist helping a single dead person. And not one Bible character ever received the Eucharist on behalf of a departed loved one.

As you may suspect, this Catholic tradition is not only absent from Elohiym’s Word, it directly violates it as well. The Scriptures teaches that we will each give account for our own life:

Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to Elohiym. 

Yahuwshuwa Messiah did all the work

People enter heaven solely because of the good work Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach did on the cross. Salvation is a gift from Elohiym, not an item earned by our righteousness or the righteousness of friends and loved ones.

Death, then judgment

The Scriptures declares that after death, everyone faces Elohiym for judgment. There are no more chances:

Ibriym (Hebrews) 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

Those who do not put their faith in Mashiyach (Messiah) while they are alive are already condemned to hell:

Yahuwchanon (John) 3:18 He that believes on him [Yahuwshuwa] is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of Elohiym. 

The wrath of Elohiym abides on those who die without Elohiym:

Yahuwchanon (John) 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of Elohiym abides on him.

The Scriptures say nothing about Elohiym’s wrath being pacified because someone received the Eucharist on behalf of departed loved ones. The only way to avoid the condemnation of Elohiym is by placing your faith in Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach while you are alive. Yahuwshuwa Messiah  declared the following words:

Yahuwchanon (John) 3:36 “... He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 

Conclusion

Once again, you are left with several questions which must be answered:

Why is this tradition of the Catholic Church so diametrically opposed to Elohiym’s Holy Word? Why does the Catholic Church want members performing rituals for the dead, when Elohiym’s Word says such practices are useless? Is this but another method of keeping people in bondage to the Catholic Church? Most importantly, you need to understand that to continue practicing this man-made tradition, you must reject the very words of YaHuW’shuwa ha’Mashiyach. Are you sure you want to do this?

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Mashiyach (Messiah). 

Sunday, December 4, 2011

“Why Don’t You Preach the Gospel Instead of Calling the Church Out of Idolatry?”

By Maria Merola
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, November 2007

As a writer and a public speaker, I often receive emails, questions, and comments from people of every walk of life. The majority of the people whom I encounter do hunger and thirst for righteousness, and their questions are based on an honest, and sincere desire to know the truth. 

However, there are those few who write to me, raising objections for the sake of quieting their own restless conscience. It is obvious that they are not really interested in learning the truth, but they would rather cling to their man-made traditions. 

These are the people who always seem to come up with the same-old misquoted Bible passages (taken completely out of context), in order to defend their so-called “freedom in Christ.By their arguments and false reasoning, it is obvious that they have been indoctrinated by racketeering preachers in the pulpits who preach lawlessness for the sake of financial prosperity, and popularity. One of these patented responses that I often hear from them is: “Why don’t you focus on preaching the gospel instead of debating about the Law?”

People who say such things are merely trying to deflect from the spirit behind my message to the church which is: “Come out of idolatry.” They use these types of responses as a smoke-screen, but when you think about the logic behind what they are really saying, it goes something like this:

“Why not win souls instead of calling the church out of idolatry?”

This sounds like an oxymoron---doesn’t it?

Throughout the history of the nation of Yisra’el, we observe many times within the pages of the Tanakh, (Old Testament), that our Creator always dealt first with his covenant people, Yisra’el, and before he dealt with the heathen nations. Why? Because if Yisra’el walked uprightly, (and she would forsake her idols), then the heathen nations would look to her as an example of righteousness, and thus, they would repent.

Today, the Christian Church is very similar to Ancient Yisra’el in the fact that they have attained to the covenant promises of Abraham through Messiah, Yahuwshuwa (whom they erroneously refer to as Jesus).

The Heavenly Father, YaHuWaH deals first with the Christian Church, because they are the ones who are called “My first-born” (Jeremiah 31:9). Most Christians do not see themselves as belonging to Yisra’el. They are like Josephs younger son, Ephrayim in that they were born in a foreign country (not born in Yisra’el), yet they are still named Yisra’el, because they belong to Messiah. Similarly, Ephrayim was born in Egypt, yet, he did not realize he was part of Yisra’el (because he belonged to his father, Joseph). But it was not until his grandfather, Jacob/Yisra’el prophesied over him, that his true identity was realized.

The House of Ephraim (Yisra’el), is comprised of the Ten Northern Tribes of Yisra’el who were scattered to the four corners of the earth after King Solomon died (see 1st Kings chapter 12). Jacob (whose name was later changed to Yisra’el) prophesied over his grandson, Ephrayim and decreed that he would become “A multitude of nations (Genesis 48:19). Yet, while he would become a multitude of nations, he would still be given the name Yisra’el,as Jacob conferred his name upon his two grandsons Ephrayim & Manasseh (Genesis 48:16).

Those who are “born-again,by the blood of Messiah, (yet they were born in a foreign nation like Ephrayim), are every bit a part of Yisra’el as those who were born in the nation. This is why they are referred to as “My first-born,because the gentiles were the first ones to receive the good news of Messiah in the days when Yahuwshuwa (Jesus) was here. The Kingdom of Judah (Jews), however, rejected him as Messiah for the most part.

And this is why the Christian Church is meant to be an example to those who are not followers of Messiah. However, if the church is in idolatry herself, she is powerless to win the lost. The Christian Church today must be able to recognize that through the blood of Messiah, they too have been grafted into the same olive tree with Yisra’el, and that they have not replaced Yisra’el. Consequently, YaHuWaH deals with the Christian Church today no differently than he did with the nation of Yisra’el in the Tanakh (Old Testament). And because Elohiym deals with his own covenant people first, (before he reaches out to the rest of the world), it should come as no surprise that he is calling the church to come up to a higher standard:

1st Keefa (Peter) 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of  Elohiym (God): and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of Elohiym?

If repentance first begins with those who claim to be in blood covenant with Messiah, the end result shall be that those who don’t obey the gospel at all will be won over also! 

Our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa (Jesus) came to earth first, for the “The lost sheep of the House of Yisra’el,” and then a few years later, he sent his disciples to reach out to the Gentiles.

In other words, we must first bring back those within the Christian Church who are “the lost sheep” because of pagan influences. Once the lost sheep are found, they can in turn heal the rest of the heathen world. Otherwise, it is like the pagans trying to win the pagans. Or in other words, the proverbial “blind leading the blind.”

What happened to the House of Judah in the days of the prophet Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah)? The nation of Judah became infected with the same religion of Babylon just like today’s Christian Church. Thus, YaHuWaH had to pluck them up, break down their idols and images, and throw down their false pagan altars.”  He had to afflict them, and destroy every vestige of paganism in their culture before he could allow them to come back to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) to rebuild. It does not sound very gentle or loving, does it? But indeed, YaHuWaH’s ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts!

Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah ) 31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says YHWH.

You see, YaHuWaH has called me to preach the same message of Jeremiah in our generation! He has called me to pluck up false religious lies that have infected the once true faith of our Messiah. He has called me to break down idolatrous ways of thinking, and then we can begin to rebuild a new foundation, which is the true Rock, the Messiah named Yahuwshuwa. 

But the false pagan “Jesus” that the Roman Catholic Mother Harlot has peddled to the world is a false foundation built on sinking sand. This false foundation is what we must pluck up, break down and destroy before Messiah can rebuild the Tabernacle of David at his return. The prophet Jeremiah foretold about the days that we are now living in wherein the Gentiles will finally realize that we have been lied to with a false pagan Messiah and a false gospel:

Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah ) 16:19 O YHWH, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Many in the church think that they are worshiping the real Messiah but it is “Another Jesus” not patterned after scripture (2nd Corinthians 11:4). Most of Christianity has been conditioned to believe that our Messiah came to do away with the Mosaic Law (Towrah) and thus the majority of the Christian Church teaches a “Lawless Jesus” who extends “cheap grace” without any self-sacrifice, without any repentance or “dying to the old sinful nature.”

We cannot save one single soul until we get them back to the REAL Messiah Yahuwshuwa!

We can preach the gospel all day long and then win them to a false pagan Jesus who is embedded in pagan myths but they will not grow in the faith at all.

The rationale behind saying that we can use paganism to preach the gospel goes something like this:

“Why not tolerate idolatry and the sin of breaking the 1st Commandment in order to preach the good news that Jesus died so that we dont have to keep the commandments anymore?”

This, my friends, is a false gospel!

To those who would say that our primary job is to go and preach the gospel, I could not agree with you more!

That is the primary reason why YaHuWaH has called me to educate the church because we are not reaching the Jews with this pagan version of the gospel!

And please don’t give me that same-old anti-Semitic attitude that I hear all the time where Christians rationalize it is pointless to preach the gospel to the Jews. They say things like “The Jews rejected Christ because their hearts were hard.” When I hear Christians saying this, I become furious inside, because they presume that “hard-heartedness” is exclusive to the Jewish people, rather than it being a condition of the human heart.

In Jeremiah 17:9, it declares that the heart of mankind is deceitful and desperately wicked! Christians who say these types of things are displaying that they have hearts that are even more hardened than the Jewish people, because they won’t even try to reach the Jews for Messiah! Not only that, but since most Christians reject the Towrah (instructions) of our Heavenly Father, they are no different than Korah in the rebellion against Moses!

We will never reach the Jewish people with a Greco-Roman paganized Jesus. Yahuwshuwa said to the Samaritan woman at the well “You don’t know what you worship, but we do for salvation is of the Yahuwdiy (Jews)” ----Yahuwchanon (John) 4:22. 

He was telling her that if you don’t worship the Father in the same way that the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) does by keeping the Feasts and the Sabbaths, then YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU WORSHIP! 

You see, the Tribe of Yahuwdah has been given the role of the “kinsman redeemer” for the other eleven Tribes of Yisrael. We see this illustrated in the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar in Genesis 38. Judah had promised to send her his youngest son Shelah as a “kinsman redeemer” after his first-born son Er and the middle son Onan had already died. But instead, Judah himself ended up as her kinsmen redeemer! 

You see, the Tribe of YaHuWDaH (Judah) is the tribe that reveals the Father & the Son as the “kinsman redeemer!” See my other article entitled: The Father & the Son Seen in Judah, the Kinsman Redeemer.

In Genesis 49:8-12 the patriarch Yaaqob (Jacob) spoke a prophecy over his son Yahuwdah (Judah) from where we derive the term “Jew.” Ya’aqob (Jacob), whose name was changed to Yisra’el said concerning his son Judah: “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come.” 

What does this prophecy mean? It means that the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) or the Jewish people are the tribe that was commissioned to uphold the standard of the Towrah (Mosaic Law) for the other eleven tribes (of which Christians are grafted into). In Romans 3:1-2, the Apostle Shauwl (Paul) wrote: “What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of Elohiym.” 

What are these oracles? The Greek Strong’s Concordance defines this word “oracles” as “logion” which means: “The contents of the Mosaic Law.” So you see, the House of Yahuwdah (Jews) were entrusted with the mandate to preach the Towrah to the nations!

So you see, before we can have world revival on a global scale, we must first preach the true besowrah (gospel) of the true Yahuwdiyth (Jewish) Messiah!

To the Jew First

Why are we commanded to preach the besowrah (gospel) to the Yahuwdiy (Jew) first? Because the scriptures say so:

Romiym (Romans) 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Mashiyach (Messiah): for it is the power of Elohiym unto salvation to everyone that believes; to the Yahuwdiy (Jew) first, and also to the Greek.

Romiym (Romans) 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Yahuwdiy (Jew) first, and also of the Gentile;

Romiym (Romans) 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Yahuwdiy (Jew) first, and also to the Gentile:

I am the oldest of four children in my family. And so, when I was a child, and all of us kids were being scolded for being rowdy, my father would always look at me and say: “Maria, you are the oldest, so you should know better.”

Elohiym in his wisdom has chosen “the weak things to put down the mighty, and the foolish things to confound the wise” (1st  Corinthians 1). 

And so he uses the Gentiles (the younger brother) to make the Jews (the older brother) come back up to the standard that he was chosen for in the first place. YaHuWaH has allowed the House of Ephrayim (the younger son) to provoke the biological first-born son (Judah) to jealousy, by reversing the roles and calling Ephrayim his first-born (Jeremiah 31:9).

But why would he do this? Because the first-born son became complacent and he began to keep the commandments out of habit and he lost his first love. He was no longer doing it out of love for the Heavenly Father but out of duty. But when the prodigal son came home, he desired to obey the commandments because of the Father’s great love and compassion for him. This what the Father wants from Judah, as well. He wants Judah (Jews) to obey him out of love rather than out of duty. And he wants Ephrayim to come back home to the Towrah (instructions) of the Father so that he can provoke big brother to jealousy!

This is the wisdom of Elohiym!

If we attempt to use lies about Christ-Mass & Easter thinking that we can win people to Messiah this way, then we will, later on, have to undo all of the lies we taught them. This rationale sounds something like this: “I have to lie to you first so that I can preach the truth to you. Now, do you see that we cannot use pagan holidays under the guise of getting people saved? 

This kind of logic reminds me of what Yahuwshuwa said to the religious leaders of his day:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

In Yahuwshuwa’s day, the religious leaders were going all over the world to win converts (proselytes) but once they did, they were making them twice the child of Hell (Gehenna), because they were teaching them false man-made traditions. Our Messiah taught us that these “traditions of men only serve to nullify the word of Elohiym in the life of the believer making the word of “none effect (Matthew 5:16). 

In other words, we can preach a false gospel by using lies, about Christ-Mass and Easter, but then what are we really winning them to? There is no power to come out of Babylon and the world in that kind of “watered down gospel.”

We must preach the message of the cross (self-denial) which says: “Deny yourself, be willing to die for Messiah, and give up everything… forsake all idols and false pagan systems.”

That is the true gospel of which the Apostle Sha’uwl (Paul) spoke:

“.......for the preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish…”----1st Corinthians 1:18.

This means that we must preach an uncompromising message of dying to the old sinful nature, and the traditions of men.

In the past, I have had an affinity for finding old pieces of furniture in people’s trash, redeeming it, stripping off the old paint and uncovering the beauty of the real wood underneath. Once that was done, I could then apply the new finish.

You cannot apply new finish to old paint. You must strip away the old stuff so that the wood will become porous enough to receive the stain and the new finish.

The same thing holds true with preaching the gospel. We must first strip away the layers of old ways of thinking from people and then we can preach the real Yahuwshuwa--- the true Yahuwdiyth (Jewish) Messiah!

Then we can build on that foundation which is him!

If we are not preaching both elements of Law & Prophets, Spirit & Truth, Wisdom & Revelation,” then we are not preaching the true Message of the Kingdom. 

The Law of YaHuWaH (Towrah) gives us “wisdom” but the Ruwach Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) brings “revelation.” But we need both operating in our lives!

There are those within the Christian Church who have been given some revelation but they are lacking in wisdom because they think that the Towrah (Mosaic Law) is done away with.

Then there are the Jews who have wisdom from the Towrah, but many of them reject the Messiah, (who gives us the anointing of the Holy Spirit).

So you see, both camps are missing something!

Christians need to come back to Towrah and Jews need to accept the Messiah Yahuwshuwa and receive his spirit inside of them!

The Jewish people have rejected Messiah, largely because of the false way that Christianity has presented him. Not only has Christianity rejected the Towrah (Mosaic Law) which the Messiah of Yisrael always upheld and obeyed, but they have persecuted the Jews for centuries, and this is what has caused the Jewish people to reject him.

Why does the Bible teach us to preach the gospel to the Jew first? Because as the Apostle Sha’uwl (Paul) explained it in Romans 11:

“....if the falling away of them is riches to the world, how much more their fullness?”

In other words, we will win the rest of the world to Messiah when we first reach the Jews! They are the key to world revival! And how do we win the Jews to Messiah? When the Christian Church at large comes out of Mystery Babylon Religion, and they begin to obey the Towrah, then the Jewish people (symbolized by the older brother in the story of the prodigal son) will then be provoked to Jealousy! And this is how we truly preach the besowrah (gospel)! We do it by obeying Towrah and then we can “provoke Judah to jealousy!”

Ephrayim the Prodigal Son

Can you imagine the prodigal son writing and sending letters to his older brother while he is still in the pig-pen and trying to provoke his older brother to obey their father? The older brother would just laugh at him and say to him: “look at you hypocrite!...you don’t obey our father’s instructions and you are trying to win me over to live as you do?”

In the parable of the prodigal son, Ephrayim (Yisra’el ) represents the younger brother who was “afar off” in the land of Egypt (symbolizing bondage to sin). Judah on the other hand, represents the older brother who continued to obey the father’s instructions (the Feasts and Sabbaths).

The prophet Ezekiel was given a commandment in Ezekiel 37:16-18 to take “two sticks” and to write upon one stick for Ephrayim and upon the other stick for Yahuwdah (Judah). YaHuWaH told Ezekiel that “the two sticks shall become one stick in my hand.”

The Hebrew word for “stick” is ets which means “tree.” In other words these two olive trees (Ephrayim & Judah) are the Gentiles and the Jews! When these two come together as ONE NEW MAN (Ephesians 2:15), then “the fullness of the Gentiles” will be accomplished (Romans 11:25). And this is when the natural branches will desire to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

This is when the “Two Witnesses” in Revelation 11:4 (the two candlesticks & the two olive trees) will preach an uncompromising message to the world that will cause the biggest revival in history! This revival will unify the Jewish and the Gentile followers of Messiah against the Anti-Messiah and his followers!

Ephrayim (Yisra’el ) will never win Judah (Jews) to the Messiah until Ephrayim comes back home to the commandments of the Heavenly Father just like the prodigal son.

When the prodigal son came back home, the father cleansed him by killing the “fatted calf” (blood atonement). And then the older brother Judah became jealous and said: 

”Father, I never left home and rebelled against your commandments (Towrah) and yet you never killed a fatted calf for me.”

Ephrayim (the prodigal son) only received the fatted calf (blood atonement) when he came home to his father’s instructions (Towrah) and then he made his older brother Judah jealous! And after Ephrayim received the fatted calf (blood atonement) he also received a signet “ring on his finger” (authority in the Father’s name) and he also received the white “robe of righteousness” or the wedding garment that qualifies him to get into the wedding!

That is the true besowrah (gospel) message, to the Yahuwdiym (Jews) first and also to the Goyim (Gentiles)!