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Dear Brother Moshe,

EEEEE-GGGG' GGGAAAADDDDD!!!! There's more to being a lover of Yahshua than I thought!! Elohim is Wonderful, astounding!! When will He stop knocking our socks off?!?!? I read the very first of your articles. I started out skeptically but as I finished it I couldn't even concentrate for the surpassing size of this startling revelation. Your literal brother in Yahshua Adonai; Immanuel,

Jay Roberts

Dear Jay,

Thanks a bunch for all the nice compliments. Are you sure you are not on commission?

Greetings,

My name is Lisa Allen. I heard Moshe speak at The Tree of Life Assembly in Sevierville, Tenn. My husband, friends, and I were well pleased with the exciting information on The Two Houses of Israel. I have a question, if I might. The Tree of Life provided tapes of the teaching and we have been reviewing them. On the Shabbat morning Moshe is talking about the seed (zera) of Abraham. He says the word in Genesis 12:3 is (and I quote) "the word here is 'nevarekh' not 'yevarekh' which means to bless but 'nevarekh' meaning to mix." We have looked in our Strong's, Hebrew language books, Hebrew dictionaries, Brown/Driver/Briggs, Wilson's Word Studies, Internet, etc and cannot find any references as to this word 'nevarekh' meaning to mix. Can you help us understand this and tell us where we can find this information? Thank you for your time

Lisa Allen

Dear Lisa,

Paul is stating what all of us already should know in Galatians 3:19; that salvation and the promise of salvation was brought by the One and Only Seed (Messiah Yahshua), who would, in turn, bless all the nations taking the good news to all of Abraham’s sperm globally (Genesis 12:3). In Hebrew Genesis 12:3 literally reads: "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you and in you shall all the nations of the earth shall be mixed! "Ve nivrechu bekah kol mishpachot ha-adamah." The Hebrew word improperly translated in most translations as blessed, is the Hebrew word ve nivrechu. Nivrechu means mixed not blessed! "In five places in the Talmud and other rabbinic literature nivrechu is translated as grafted or intermingled. In the orthodox Jewish Art Scroll Tanach Series, Volume 1 p. 432 it is written: ‘There is an opinion shared by Rashbam, Chizkuni, Da’as Zekeinum and quoted by Tur, that the verb ve-nivrechu in Genesis 12:3 is related to the root barak as in the Mishnaic term mavreek meaning to intermingle or graft." Hebrew word nivrechu is the niphal conjugation of the root word barak. Literally it can read: " and in you all nations will be born through mixing." The Art Scroll series agrees. In five places, this word is translated mixed or grafted by the rabbis (Keliam 7:1, Sotah 43A). The Hebrew for blessed is yivrechu not nivrechu. Paul had this understanding and confirms this in Galatians 3:29 and Romans 11:13 17, where he calls non-Jewish believers the grafted-in physical seed of Abraham, in direct fulfillment of the ve-nivrechu blessing of multiplicity in Genesis 12:3!

The Seed, or the Messiah Yahshua, blesses all the nations (the mixed seed of Abraham), and since Jews and Israelites from Ephraim are in all the nations, you have two marvelous concurrent truths floating from Calvary. You have the Seed (Messiah) going into all the nations, with His Word (Mark 4:14), to gather into one Abraham, Isaac and Israel’s scattered physical seed.

Rabbi,

I was doing some more studying on Shavuot. Your article on Shavuot (A Time Of ReNewal) really helped to show me what Shavuot is. But I have another question, When was Israel exiled what time of year was it. I may be wrong, that is why I want to ask you first before I taught it to any body, but could it be that the exile was on Shavuot or around that time. I was reading in Amos 8:1-6 8:2 talks on a basket of summer fruit (kayitz) then he says "The End" (ketz) has come for my people.

In Hebrew it seems to me that there is a play on words. Amos states that there is a summer fruit basket in front of him. And then it says The End. The words look and sound a like. Verse 5 then goes and talks on the Rosh-Chodesh. Could this point to Shavuot, or it was at the time of Shavuot that Amos (being from Judah) gave his message to Israel, that they would be exiled If you have any thoughts on this or tell me that I am wrong and you can answer my question I will be great full

Shalom and Thanks,

Chester Anderson (Simcha Adonai Dance Ministries)

Dear Chester,

Great question. Actually the judgment pronounced upon Northern Israel can be seen in Amos1: 1-8. Yes I do believe that Yahweh is sending the northern kingdom or Ephraim into a 2700 year Diaspora commencing right about the time of Shavuot, since the wheat harvest was presented to Yahweh on Shavuot or Pentecost. Whether or not the House of Israel was exiled on Shavuot is unclear. What is clear is the prophetic message Yahweh sends in connection with hapless Ephraim’s future celebrations of the feast!

Previously the Ephraimites were in a hurry for the Rosh Chodesh [New Moon] and for Shabbat to be over with so that they could go on in dishonest gain in business and the abuse of the poor. They were found unfaithful in these two celebrations and thus would not be allowed to experience any more of the Feasts, found in Leviticus 23. Since Israel’s marriage to Yahweh was on Shavuot, most likely His divorce of the nation (not the individuals) also took place on the same day!

Amos 8:9 talks of Judah’s Diaspora, which actually began when the fate of the Son of Yahweh was sealed on Calvary. As the Brit Chadashah teaches us, the entire globe was dark in the middle of the day in fulfillment of Amos 8:9. Although Jewish-Israel would not see General Titus until 70CE, their fate was sealed on the day darkness covered the earth, a symbol of Judah’s darkness and rebellion having filled Yahweh’s cup of indignation. Since they rejected the Paschal Lamb of Yahweh slain before the foundation of the world, they would not be allowed to experience the next feast on Yahweh’s calendar with His blessing. The next feast was Shavuot, set apart for those who did receive the Paschal Lamb Yahshua) as the first fruits offering, then to enjoy the full wheat harvest 50 days later. So we see that prophetic wrath was pronounced against both houses and Yahweh stopped both houses from entering into the summer harvest of Shavuot. That harvest of souls in 33AD was reserved for a forgiven and obedient remnant of 120 (the ekklesia) from both houses [see Shavuot; A Time of Re-Newal at http://www.yourarmstoisrael.org] in The Temple. Since Yahweh married all Israel on Shavuot giving Torah as the ketuvah (marriage agreement) 50 days after the exodus, He chose Shavout to display his divorce of the northern kingdom from future Shavuot celebrations, as well as informing Judah that all their celebrations starting with Passover 33AD would no longer please him due to the Passover Lamb’s rejection.

Amos chapter 8 is a pronouncement on both houses and we see a redeemed remnant of both houses prophesied to experience reconciliation later in Amos 9:11-12, and fulfilled in Acts 2, again on Shavuot 33CE, as Yahweh renews His vows to remnant, restored Israel! Selah