Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth

By Maria Merola אריאל

© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance October 22, 2009

http://www.DoublePortionInheritance.com

 

Back in 1974, (when I was 14 years old), I can remember reading the gospel of Matthew and thinking to myself that our Messiah was inventing new laws to those in the Mosaic Law. 

The reason why I came to this conclusion, and the reason why so many in the Christian Church come to this conclusion is because they do not study the Tanakh (Old Testament) in order to gain understanding of what Yahuwshuwa was talking about.

A dear Christian man wrote to me and had this very same misconception.

This is what he wrote:

“...did not Jesus change the commandments when he said the law says: ‘hate your enemies, BUT I NOW SAY, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES’.....where is that in the law an eye for an eye? BUT I NOW SAY....A LOT OF PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT JESUS WAS DOING HERE WHEN HE SAID: ’BUT I SAY.’”

My answer to this man was this:

When Yahuwshuwa said “IT IS WRITTEN,” he was speaking about the Towrah of our Heavenly Father (the five books of Moses). How do we know this? Because scripture tells us that the Law of Mosheh (Towrah) was “written with the finger of Elohiym,” and all five books were written down in scrolls by Mosheh under inspiration of the Ruwach ha'Qodesh (Holy Spirit). 

Whenever he said “YOU HAVE HEARD,” he is quoting the Oral Laws of the Pharisees (Talmud) which often times contradicted the Laws of our Creator (Towrah). How do we know this? Because the “Oral Towrah” was handed down orally and it was not written down until the 4^th century under Hillel II. At the time when Yahuwshuwa walked the earth, the Oral Laws of the Pharisees (Talmud) were not “written” but they were orally passed down. Therefore, when Yahuwshuwa said “you have heard it said” he was referring to man-made laws, not the laws of our Heavenly Father.

In order to understand what Yahuwshuwa was talking about, we must go to the Towrah to find out:

Wayyikra (Leviticus) 24:

17 And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death. 

18 And he that kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. 

19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he has done, so shall it be done to him; 

20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. 

21 And he that kills a beast, he shall restore it: and he that kills a man, he shall be put to death. 

22 You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am YHWH your Elohiym.

*Note: The laws for the Yisra’elite were the same as for the Gentile.

You will notice in the above law that this is all about making restitution. Today it would be called “indemnity.” If someone crashes into your car, they have to pay for the damage that they did to your car, right? That is what Auto Insurance is for. The Towrah provided laws of fairness for those who destroyed the property of another. The person who destroyed, stole and damaged another’s property had to make “restitution.” Those who murdered had to pay with their own life. Today this is called “capital punishment.” Elohiym requires “blood for blood.”

Grace was always available, for those who were truly repentant even under the Mosaic Law. The Mosaic Law showed us what we deserved, but the mercy and grace of our Father often prevailed because YaHuWShuWA was always the lamb slain from the foundations of the world (Revelation 13:8). Any person could gain a revelation of grace by understanding that the ordinances in the Temple being done by the Lewites (Levites)were an exact replica of what was going on in Heaven by our High Priest Yahuwshuwa, who is a priest forever in eternity (Hebrews 7).

King Dawiyd (David)had Uriah, (the husband of Bethsheba) killed in battle and he made it look like an accident. But he was truly repentant, and YaHuWaH forgave Dawiyd (David). However, Yah did require blood for blood, and Dawiyd (David)’s baby born to him by Bethsheba died for his sin against Uriah.

Even under the Renewed Covenant, Ananias & Sapphira paid with their own blood for lying to the Holy Spirit. When they did this evil deed after receiving the knowledge of the truth and the gift of the Holy Spirit, they crucified the son of Elohiym afresh and put him to an open shame (Hebrews 6:6) and this means that they made Yahuwshuwa’s shed blood in vain. Therefore, they had to pay with their own life:

Acts 5:

1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 

2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 

3 But Keefa (Peter) said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 

4 While it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was it not in your own power? why have you conceived this thing in your heart? you have not lied unto men, but unto Elohiym. 

5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the spirit: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

But there were also laws in place for those who killed someone by accident. This is called “involuntary manslaughter.” If someone took the life of another unintentionally, there was provision for this:

Debariym (Deuteronomy) 19:

3 You shall prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which YHWH your Elohiym gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there. 

4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoso kills his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; 

5 As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lands upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: 

6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 

Now getting back go what Yahuwshuwa said in Matthew 5:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 5:

43 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy. 

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 

It is important to note, that there is not one commandment in the Towrah (5 books of Mosheh) commanding us to “hate our enemies.” And so who was Yahuwshuwa quoting?

YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT HAS BEEN SAID = ORAL LAW

But Yahuwshuwa said to obey the Law of our Creator:

Wayyikra (Leviticus) 19:34 But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am YHWH your Elohiym.

Debariym (Deuteronomy) 10:19 Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 

When reading the Besowrah (Gospels), many cannot see the difference between Talmud (Oral Law) and Towrah (Laws of our Creator). They are making the classic mistake of confusing the two things and they also confuse justification with sanctification. These are classic Dispensationalist errors. 

Whenever Yahuwshuwa said “you have heard it said” he was quoting the Talmud. Whenever he said “but I say” he was bringing them right back to Torah again, because it was Yahuwshuwa himself who gave the Towrah to Mosheh “written with the finger of Elohiym” (Exodus 31:18, Deuteronomy 9:10).

There was a distinction he was always making with certain distortions of the Talmud where they were taking out of context the purpose and intent of Towrah. If the Towrah, commands us to require “eye for eye, tooth for tooth,” as a means to making restitution or indemnity, the Talmud used these verses out of context and tried to make those commandments apply to seeking revenge when it was never intended for that. The original intent of this Towrah commandment was for making restitution. If someone killed a man’s donkey or ox he had to make restitution by giving one of his animals to replace the loss. 

This is what the term “eye for eye, tooth for tooth” meant. But Talmudic corruptions turned this into being spiteful and gaining vengeance. They used Torah’s words for the wrong intent. They were justifying the idea of “paying evil for evil” by using the Towrah out of context. Yahuwshuwa did not “change” the Towrah one little bit! He was bringing us back to Towrah and showing the Pharisees that their twisted way of interpreting the Towrah was evil. And today Christianity does the same thing with twisting Towrah to mean something else! 

Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

1^st Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

1^st Keefa (Peter) 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.

A “New Commandment” or an Old One Renewed in Our Understanding?

The prophet Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) spoke of a “new” covenant that YaHuWaH would make in the last days between two groups of people: The House of Yisra’el (Ephrayim) and the House of Yahuwdah (Judah). The Hebrew word that he used here for “new” is the word “chadash” which means: “to rebuild, renew and repair.”

YirmeYaHuW (Jeremiah) 31:31 Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’el, (Ephrayim) and with the house of YaHuW’dah (Judah):

Our Messiah came to “renew, rebuild and repair” the Old Marriage Covenant that had been broken by Yisra’el, (because of paganism) and he came to “renew” the wedding vows and the terms and conditions of that Covenant (Towrah). In the same way, he came to “renew” the commandments and make them “fresh” in our understanding!

People often times try to make a distinction between “the Law of Elohiym” versus “the Law of Messiah” as if they are somehow different. They will cite “The Two Greatest Commandments” as if our Messiah was giving us “two new replacement laws” and doing away with the other 611 Commandments in the Towrah (5 books of Mosheh). There are several flaws with this. First of all, they forget to insert the word “hang” into this statement: 

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 22: 

³⁵ Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

³⁶ Master, which is the great commandment in the Towrah (law)?

³⁷ Yahuwshuwa said unto him, You shall love YHWH your Elohiym with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Was this some brand new commandment that he was giving us as many Christians often believe? Or was he quoting from the Torah?

Debariym (Deuteronomy) 6:5 And you shall love YHWH your Elohiym with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Debariym (Deuteronomy) 10:12 And now, Yisra’el, what does YHWH your Elohiym require of you, but to fear YHWH your Elohiym, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve YHWH your Elohiym with all your heart and with all your soul.

Wayyikra (Leviticus) 19:18 You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am YHWH.

In all of his teachings, our Messiah made it evident that he was not coming to abolish the Towrah (Laws of our Creator). What does it mean to “abolish”? In Deuteronomy 12:32 we are commanded not to “add nor diminish” from the Towrah! If our Messiah was coming up with brand new Commandments, he would be guilty of “adding” to the Towrah and thus he would be violating (abolishing) the Towrah! So what he did he mean when he said this?

YaHuW’chanon (John) 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Was this really a brand new commandment?

#2537 kainos kahee-nos of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while 3501 is properly so with respect to age:--new; recently made fresh.

But it comes from this root word:

#3501 neos neh’-os including the comparative neoteros neh-o’-ter-os; a primary word; “new,” i.e. (of persons) youthful, or (of things) fresh; figuratively, regenerate:--new, young.

The Apostle Yahuwchanon (John) understood this well when he wrote the following:

1^st Yahuwchanon (John) 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. 

1^st Yahuwchanon (John) 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

John called it a “new commandment” but he first pre-qualified what he meant by saying that this is not a new commandment but an old one! He was making it “new” again in our understanding and in our ability to now obey it. It was a fresh new commandment now because of the blood atonement which cleanses us and gives us a fresh new start whereby we now have the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome the sinful nature (lawlessness). And since we have a fresh new start,  we are now able to obey the Towrah! 

Biblical Zionism versus Political Zionism

By Maria Merola אריאל

© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, September 2011
http://www.DoublePortionInheritance.com

I want to first give a brief summary of the differences between “Biblical Zionism & Political Zionism.” Basically, Political Zionism stems from the idea that we do not have to wait for the Messiah from heaven to return to earth. Political Zionism seeks to unify all world religions under the Papacy (a false Messiah) with the Vatican headquarters in Jerusalem.

Political Zionism seeks to create a Jewish state that is run by a man-made Messiah, rather than waiting for prophecy to unfold as the scriptures foretell.

On the other hand, Biblical Zionism means to be zealous over the biblical promises given to the descendants of Abraham with regard to the land along with the spiritual promises that go with it. YaHuWaH himself is the one who had declared that he is jealous over Zion & Jerusalem!

Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 1:14 So the messenger that communed with me said unto me, Cry you, saying, Thus says YHWH of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 8:2 Thus says YHWH of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

Yet, despite the fact that there is a legitimate jealousy over Zion (that is from our Heavenly Father), there are those who would use the term “Zionism” in a completely secular and political way that has nothing to do with prophecy or scripture.

There seems to be a growing trend today where people are painting all Jewish people in the world with a “broad brush,” and calling them “The Synagogue of Satan.” 

These people usually cite these verses out of the book of Revelation, where our Messiah warned us about those who “Say they are Jews, but they are of the Synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9 & 3:9).

The people that our Messiah was warning us about are not the Jewish people in general. He was warning us about those who are ethnically Jewish, yet they are atheists, and they have aligned themselves with the global agenda of the Vatican. Examples of such people are: George Soros, the Rothschild Bankers, the Rockefellers. 

There are Zionist filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg, and Robert Zemeckis who used the “Back to the Future” films in the 1980s to warn us ahead of time about the events of 9/11 thirty years before they happened!

See this link to understand the hidden agenda portrayed in the Back to the Future films:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ULjJ3EqyY

Also, see my other article entitled:

“Vatican Ready to Move Headquarters to Jerusalem!” 

As I reported from the above article, Shimon Perez handed over Jerusalem to the Vatican under Pope John Paul II in 1993. It was at this time that Pope John Paul II divided the old city of Jerusalem into three sections: Muslim, Christian & Jewish, thus fulfilling an important prophecy in Revelation 16:19:

“And that great city [Jerusalem] was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came into remembrance before Elohiym, to give unto her, the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.”

In the days when our Messiah was here on earth, Rome was in control of Jerusalem, and yet we are shown that Rome will once again be in control of Jerusalem in the end of days, just before the return of the Messiah. It was our Messiah who warned us what to look for just before the great tribulation. He told us that we would “See the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place....”

In spite of the Illuminati-controlled government in the Modern State of Yisra’el, the land of Yisra’el and Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) are still set-apart and qodesh (holy) because of the covenant that YaHuWaH made with Abraham. 

The prophecy in Isaiah 66:8 about Yisra’el being reborn in one day came to pass in 1948. However, Satan has his agenda with Yisra’el, just as in the days when Messiah was here. Rome was in control then also, but the people were still YaHuWaH’s people then, and they are still YaHuWaH’s people today. The land given to Abraham is where the borders of the land of Yisra’el are to this day:

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 15:18 In the same day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 17:8 And I will give unto you, and to your seed after your, the land wherein you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their Elohiym.

This is the land where YaHuWaH has chosen to place his name (Deuteronomy 16:6-11, 26:2). The attitude of the nations and their justification against Yisra’el (Israel) is being fueled by this kind of attitude where people are saying “The Jews in Yisra’el are not the real Jews and the Modern State of Yisra’el is not the true Yisra’el.” 

This rationale and attitude is wrong in many counts as I will illustrate from scripture in this study. Only the Heavenly Father, YaHuWaH knows who His elect are, and it is not up to us to decide. Those who are reckoned as sons of Abraham are the ones who are heirs to the land given to Abraham. But how do we determine who is a son of Abraham?

Galatiym (Galatians) 3:

6 Even as Abraham believed Elohiym, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7 Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that Elohiym would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the besowrah (gospel) unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.

9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Those who believe in the promises of Elohiym in the scriptures are called “children of Abraham,” and it is they who are given the right to inherit the land given to Abraham: 

Galatiym (Galatians) 4:

22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.

*Note: only those who are born from above in Messiah are considered the children of the free woman. But the children of the slave woman are not heirs to the land of promise. 

Back in the days when there were unrighteous Kings like Ahab (who allowed his foreign wife Jezebel to rule in Yisra’el), the prophet Eliyahuw (Elijah) was called to give a word of rebuke to who? The nation of Yisra’el! Now, just because a foreign woman ruled over Yisra’el at that time, did that disqualify the people of Yisra’el from being Yisra’el ? Of course not! 

To say that the nation back then was not the true Yisra’el just because of their unrighteous kings would not be accurate. In the days when Messiah was here, we know that Caiaphas was appointed by Rome (not a Levite) and the government were Roman-appointed men like King Herod who was a Phoenician. But does that mean that YaHuWaH did not establish them as a nation? 

Do we give credit to Rome or the United Nations as the one who established Yisra’el as a nation in 1948? No---of course not! When people make these kinds of blanket statements, it makes it appear that Satan is the one who allowed the Modern State of Yisra’el to be reborn in one day. But that is not true. YaHuWaH used a king who worshiped Zoroaster named King Cyrus and even called him “anointed” in Isaiah 45:1. King Cyrus was a heathen King who gave the decree for Yerushalyim (Jerusalem) to be rebuilt back in 457 B.C. 

YaHuWaH still uses Illuminati money to further his cause. The wealth of the wicked has been laid up for the just (Proverbs 13:22). We don’t justify the nations coming against Yisra’el just because Yisra’el’s government and secular leaders are following the Illuminati agenda. That would be like the other nations of the world coming against the American people because our current President is Muslim and a Communist-Socialist. Would that be fair for the nations to judge all Americans based on our President and not on the “set-apart” people of Yisra’el who are living here? 

The people who belong to YaHuWaH are those whom he has given the land of Yisra’el to inherit. And to say that the entire State of Yisra’el is all secular and there are no covenant people living there today is not accurate. We need to make sure that we are not making statements that are way too general. We should make a distinction between the government of Yisra’el and the covenant people who live there. While the Jewish people living in the modern state of Yisra’el are largely in unbelief, there are many of them who are Messianic and they do believe in Yahuwshuwa as the Messiah. YaHuWaH is faithful to his promises, to the land and the ones who are sealed unto the day of redemption (Zechariah 12:10).

I am very familiar with Zionism and I expose it all the time. “The Vatican Assassins” is a book I read years ago by Eric Jon Phelps, and I found out that the term “Zionism” was a phrase coined by the Jesuits in Rome---not the Jews. There is of course “Biblical Zionism” versus secular or “Political Zionism,” which has an agenda. What is the difference? Political Zionism is not willing to wait on the Creator to send his Messiah. 

They want to preempt the return of the true Messiah from Heaven with a false man-made Messiah (quite possibly a clone of Pope John Paul II possessed by Satan), and they want to seat him in the 3^rd Jewish Temple along with “The Abomination of Desolation” or “The Image of the Beast” which will be “given life and made to speak” (Revelation 13:15). Satan is always trying to bring confusion by developing a close counterfeit with a different agenda. True “Biblical Zionism” is interested in the things of Heaven. True “Biblical Zionism” has a desire to see the return of the “King of Kings” from Heaven to set up his earthly reign here on the throne of King David.

We hear a lot of these extreme views today being verbalized such as “The black people are the real Jews and the white Jews from Europe are fake Jews.” That is a lie from the pit of Hell!

Why do you think that Ya’aqob (Jacob) gave his son Yahuwceph a coat of “many colors?”

It is because Abraham’s seed would be “sown” to the ends of the earth as they would mingle with every tribe, tongue, and nation and skin color!

Therefore, the Jewish People (the House of Yahuwdah) are not limited to any one skin color. There are Yahuwdiy (Jews) who belong to the House of Yahuwdah (Judah) of many different colors, and nationalities. 

We have to be careful how we say things or we will end up feeding the hatred that is out there towards the Yahuwdiy (Jewish) people. One brother I know made a statement that those belonging to Judaism are not true Jews. He said that those who belong to YaHuWaH are true Jews. But my response to him was this: 

Who are we to say who has the DNA of a Yahuwdiy (Jew) or not? I know that DNA alone cannot save us. But what if there are those who are trapped in Orthodox Judaism today who truly belong to the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) and they are “The elect after the foreknowledge of the Father, sprinkled with the blood of Messiah and sanctified by the Spirit? (1^st Peter 1:1-2). 

The Heavenly Father knows who his elect are in advance before they come to the knowledge of the truth. We are not the ones that can make that determination based on where they are at right now. 

The unrighteous kings of Judah were still of Judah even though they continued to worship Ba’al. But in eternity, we will find out who were his elect all along. The prodigal son always had his father’s DNA when he was lost. But he did not realize who he was until he came back home. 

The ones who are “the elect” were always his from eternity past. When people make blanket statements about Yisra’el not being the true Yisra’el or the Jews living there are not the true Jews (Yahuwdiy), they are not looking at things from an eternal perspective. It is not up to us to determine who the elect are and who are not “the elect.” Until the day of Messiah’s return, there will be the “wheat and the tares” growing up together until the harvest. 

Until then, we have to preach the besorah (gospel) to all who will listen and we must not be guilty of speaking a curse against Yisra’el like Ba’alim did. To speak out against Political Zionism is fine. But let’s be careful not to make blanket statements about the State of Yisra’el as a whole or the Jewish people who live there. 

We are commanded to preach the gospel “to the Jew first” (Romans 1:16). The prophets declared that two-thirds of the Jewish People will perish and follow the Anti-Messiah (Antichrist), but there will be a remnant of one-third who will be sealed in the foreheads according to Ezekiel 9, because they will not end up taking the “Mark of the Beast” but they will “sigh and cry at the abominations” that are being done in Jerusalem in the last days. They will be sealed in the foreheads and they will be saved when Yahuwshuwa returns and they will finally see the one whom they have pierced face to face (Zechariah 12:10).

The Seed of Abraham Leavened into the Whole Earth

There is a parable that our Messiah told in Matthew 13:33. In this parable, the woman is the Holy Spirit as well as Jerusalem (the mother of us all according to Galatians 4:26). The earth is the whole batch of dough and the “leaven” is the gospel message (the besowrah). But the “seed of Abraham” is the three measures of meal. Who are the seed of Abraham? Is it those who carry the physical DNA of Abraham? Yes, it does include them but it goes beyond physical DNA. Even those who have the DNA of Abraham must repent, accept the blood of Yahuwshuwa Messiah as atonement for their sins and obey Torah.

In Luke 3, Yahuwchanon (John) the Immerser (Baptizer) rebuked those who were putting their trust in bloodline identity. He was essentially saying to them “just because you are the physical descendants of Abraham, does not mean you are automatically saved---you must show the fruit of repentance by obeying the commandments.” Listen to what he says:

Luqas (Luke) 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luqas (Luke) 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That Elohiym is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Now, let us see what this parable is all about:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 13:33 Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

The Kingdom of Elohiym (Heaven):

1. Followers of Messiah from the House of Yahuwdah (Judah or Jews).

2. Followers of Messiah from the House of Ephraim (Yisra’el).

3. Followers of Messiah from the Nations who are grafted into Yisra’el as “native born” (Ezekiel 47:22-23). 

Kingdom of Satan (Darkness): 

1. Those who don’t believe Yahuwshuwa is the Messiah from Judah (Jews).

2. Those who don’t believe Yahuwshuwa is the Messiah from Ephraim (Yisra’el).

3. Those who don’t believe Yahuwshuwa is the Messiah from the nations.

There are 6 groups represented above and 6 is the number of Adam, man and beast because all were created on the 6^th day of creation.

The only difference is the 1^st group belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven, have received the “blood of the lamb” as atonement for their sins and they have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. In other words, they have the “breath” of YaHuWaH breathed into them.

The final Yom Kippur following the Great Tribulation for Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) will come at a heavy price because two-thirds of the Jewish people in the land of will be destroyed:

Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 13:

8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says YHWH, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, YHWH is my Elohiym.

Here, we see the dragon casting down to the earth “a third part of the stars” as he will persecute the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. They will go through the fire of affliction and they will be tested and tried for ten days during the “Ten Days of Awe” between Trumpets & Atonement (Revelation 2:10).

Revelation 12:

3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto Elohiym, and to his throne.

The woman here is “Mother Jerusalem” (Galatians 4:26), and the remnant of her seed are “the third part of the stars” who “came out of great tribulation” (Revelation 7:14). These remaining one-third will come out of the fire of cleansing and they will be saved. YaHuWaH will give to these remaining Jewish people a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 36:26), forgiving their sins forever (Jeremiah 31:34). The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) spoke of this time of the outpouring of Yah’s spirit upon the nation of Yisra’el when he wrote, “all Yisra’el shall be saved” (Romans 11:26). This future time of national cleansing and restoration will culminate with the Yahuwdiy (Jewish) people accepting Yahuwshuwa their Messiah and finally saying: YaHuWaH is my Elohiym (Zechariah 13:9).

Three Harvests Seen in the Menorah & Seven Feasts

The seven-branched menorah represents the seven-month cycle of the seven Feasts of YaHuWaH.

These begin in the spring, in the first month on the Hebrew Calendar called Abib.

The three fall feasts culminates in the seventh month on the Hebrew Calendar called Tishrei. 

The “First-Fruits” resurrection happened during the barley harvest in the spring three days after Passover. This represents all the righteous people who died under the Abrahamic Covenant, but did not have permanent blood atonement for their sins. 

These righteous souls were in a holding place called “Abraham’s Bosom” (Luke 16:22), until Messiah went into the lowest parts of the earth and harvested them as his “First-Fruits” offering presenting them before the Father in Heaven. 

Then, at Shabuoth (Pentecost) fifty days later, the Priests were commanded to present two barley loaves before YaHuWaH (Leviticus 23:17). The first picked barley represents the first group who were resurrected, and seen alive after his crucifixion (Matthew 27:52-53). The loaves of barley on Pentecost (Shabuoth) represent the “mature” (baked in the oven by tribulation, fire) and they are the Two Houses of Yisra’el (Ephraim & Judah).

Finally, at the second coming of Messiah, this will be during the season of the wheat harvest. All end-time prophecies foretell about the “Wheat & the Tares,” not the barley harvest. 

The barley harvest represents those saved under the Abrahamic & Mosaic Covenants. These were then redeemed after Yahuwshuwa resurrected. The first wheat harvest at Shabuoth (Pentecost) represents all those who were redeemed after his ascension into Heaven, as these were present in Jerusalem on that day when Keefa (Peter) preached a message that reached 3,000 souls.

The second wheat harvest symbolizes all those saved under the New Covenant in the end-time harvest during the Fall Feasts (Revelation 14). This is also the same season when the grapes are harvested in the fall--the wine-press of his wrath!

Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.

Shemoth (Exodus) 34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

As you can see from the above verses, there are three different harvests annually in Israel, and these typify three harvests in history:

1.) The first fruits of the barley in the spring (after Passover) represent those who were resurrected by Messiah from Abraham’s bosom after his crucifixion during his “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

2.) The first fruits of the wheat harvest at Pentecost represent those who received the Holy Spirit & the Renewed Covenant in Jerusalem on that day.

3.) The end-time harvest of wheat which is the second harvest of saints in the Fall Feasts at Sukkoth.

Bloodline identity ALONE is incomplete. Our DNA cannot save us. Our identity is in the blood of the Lamb who imparts to us the Holy Spirit, who in turn writes the Torah in our hearts and in our minds----in other words the Renewed Covenant!

In the meantime, let us not be guilty of speaking against the land that YaHuWaH gave to Abraham and to his seed!

Who are the Seed of Abraham?

Galatians 3:29 And if you be Messiah’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Nevertheless, we must not “boast against the branches,” because of their unbelief! The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) taught us in Romans 11, that although some of the original branches have been cut out of the Olive Tree (because of their unbelief in Messiah), those who are “grafted-in” should not boast!

This is because YaHuWaH is able to again to graft those branches back into their own Olive Tree once they come to know the Messiah!

As a matter of fact, YaHuWaH says this concerning those who are grafted into the Olive Tree of Yisra’el:

Romans 11:21 For if Elohiym spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.

Let’s not make the mistake of setting ourselves up as judges before the time is come. The Lamb’s Book of Life has not been opened up yet and there is only ONE who was found worthy to open up this book:

Revelation 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and have redeemed us to Elohiym by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Revelation 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

The Only one who is worthy to open up the books and judge whose name is written in the Book of Life is the Lamb! His name is Yahuwshuwa our Righteous King Forever and Ever, Awmane!

Spiritual Descendants & Physical Descendants

Abraham was promised two kinds of seed:

A seed “As numerous as the stars of heaven” (righteous people of faith).

And secondly, a seed as numerous “As the sands on the seashore” (blood descendants of the Tribes of Yisra’el):

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 22:

16 And said, by myself have I sworn, says YHWH, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.

The Hebrew word for “stars” refers to a spiritual Congregation of people belonging to YaHuWaH through blood Covenant:

#3556 kowkab ko-kawb’ probably from the same as 3522 (in the sense of rolling) or 3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince:--star (-gazer). Star of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God’s omniscience. 

The Hebrew word for “sand” refers to the land of Yisra’el itself, the territory that has been given as an inheritance to Abraham and his descendants:

#2334 Chavvowth Ya`iyr khav-vothe’ yaw-eer’ from the plural of 2333 and a modification of 3265; hamlets of Jair, a region of Palestine:--(Bashan- ) Havoth-jair or “villages of Jair”; certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair, the son of Manasseh, and called after his name.

There are two different Hebrew words used for “Congregation” in the scriptures:

#5712 `edah ay-daw’ feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.

*Note: This word “edah” refers to the worldwide corporate body of people of faith by blood Covenant under Abraham’s Covenant, Mosaic & Renewed Covenant. This means a heavenly or spiritual congregation.

#6951 qahal kaw-hawl’ from 6950; assemblage (usually concretely):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude.

#6952 qhillah keh-hil-law’ from 6950; an assemblage:--assembly, congregation.

*Note: These words above, qahal, or qhillah pertain to a particular Assembly of people in the natural or physical. This means an earthly Congregation.

Thus we can see that YaHuWaH has made a covenant with the physical blood descendants of Abraham, as well as those who are grafted in by the blood of Messiah into the same family. 

Those who are “born again“ of incorruptible seed, (born from above by the Spirit) are going to rule and reign with Messiah.

And those who were not born again prior to Messiah’s second coming (those who were sealed by the Spirit and did not take the mark of the beast), yet they are physical descendants of Abraham. 

During the Millennial Reign of Messiah, both the physical descendants of Abraham, as well as the Spiritual descendants (who will have put on immortality at the resurrection), will dwell together as one people (physical & spiritual). 

Likewise, there will be two priesthoods serving together side-by-side during the Millennium as in the days of King David. 

The Sons of Aaron (the earthly priesthood), and the Order of Melchizedek (the eternal priesthood who never die) will serve together in the Tabernacle of David. 

After the 1,000-year reign of our Messiah Yahuwshuwa, the New Heaven & the New Earth will then come down out of Heaven (Revelation 21). 

The physical (earthly) will then become one with the heavenly (eternal). At this point, there will no longer be a separation between the earthly descendants and the heavenly descendants of Abraham. 

All those people who become “born again” during the Millennium will become part of one resurrected bride--- The New Jerusalem. The rest of the people who are deceived by Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire with him (Revelation 21:8).

Which Mount Zion Should We be Zealous For?

Even though the term “Zionism” has become a dirty word since the Illuminati hi-jacked this word and began using it for their Antichrist agenda, there is the real Mount Tziyown (Zion) that is after the interests of heaven. 

This Mount Tziyown (Zion) in Hebrew means “a parched place.” It represents the burning mountain where YaHuWaH first wanted Yisra’el to hear his voice, yet they refused. It represents those who have been purified by his consuming fire. 

Mount Sinai is likened unto “bondage” and Hagar (Galatians 4:22-26), because it memorializes the place where Yisra’el committed harlotry with the golden calf. The word “Sinai” literally means “Babylonian moon god.” 

However, Mount Tziyown (Zion) is in Jerusalem, (the mother of us all), and is typified in Sarah (the free woman). Mount Tziyown (Zion) is another name for the city of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim)---the city of our great King David who typifies our Messiah at his second coming. 

Those who come out of the fire of affliction and tribulation are found to be like pure gold (refined in the fire) like the free woman (Sarah). Mount Tziyown is the place of our spiritual destiny:

1^st Keefa (Peter) 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Tziyown (Zion) a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded. 

Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:22 But you are come unto Mount Tziyown (Zion), and unto the city of the living Elohiym, the heavenly Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), and to an innumerable company of angels. 

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Tziyown (Zion), and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 

Romans 11:26 And so all Yisra’el shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Tziyown (Zion) the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Ya’aqob (Jacob). 

Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 37:32 For out of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of Mount Tziyown (Zion): the zeal of YHWH of hosts shall do this. 

Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohiym of Ya’aqob (Jacob); and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Tziyown (Zion) shall go forth the Torah (law), and the word of YHWH from Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).