From FULL RESTORATION OF ALL ISRAEL series CHILDREN
OF SALT
Part 27 In The Series on Israel’s Restoration
By Rabbi/Brother Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky
With
scriptural contributions by Rebbetzin Wendy McNulty
A COVENANT OF SALT FOREVER
In Bamidbar/Numbers 18:19
it is stated that all of Yisrael’s offerings offered to Yahuwah must
be offered seasoned with salt. This ordinance is a mishpat/ruling that makes
perfect sense, as Israel’s sons and daughters are to engage in an eternal covenant
of salt with Yahuwah when offering their personal sacrifices. The term “covenant
of salt” is indicative of the everlasting nature of the relationship between
the children of salt, and their Elohim Yahuwah. When we hear the term salt, the
understanding is that the things Yahuwah addresses are eternal, enduring, never
changing, and abiding forever. All salt covenants then are eternal, and eternally
binding on the sons and daughters of Yisrael, regardless where they are to be
found, and regardless of whether a physical temple stands on Mt. Moriyah or
not.
WITH ALL YOUR
OFFERINGS BRING SALT
In Wayiqra/Leviticus 2:13
it is confirmed that all Israelite offerings must be seasoned with salt. We
as Israel’s children must make sure that our salt does not lack in any service,
or act of obedience to or for Yahuwah Elohim. This mishpat/ruling has never been
reneged, and has never been removed in the Brit Chadasha. All of the offerings
not only had to be seasoned with salt but had to be void of leaven, a type of
sin, and of honey, a favorite appeasement tool offered in almost all pagan nations
in their sacrifices. Pagan deities were known to have an appetite for honey,
a sweet but false substitute to the sweetness that can only come from a close
relationship with Israel’s King and His Son. The honey was used to appease the
false deities, as well as to humanize them by feeding them honey! By giving
them sweet offerings, mankind thought that the deity would be more apt to respond
favorably.
Yahuwah cannot be bribed or
convinced to do our desire by candy and honey offerings or by any other sacraments.
Our forefathers tried it in the past by offering cakes of honey and oil (Yehchezkel/Ezekiel
16:19) to the “queen of heaven” known today in popery as the allegedly “sinless”
Mother Mary. Rather, we are called by the Messiah TO OFFER OURSELVES
to Yahuwah, as His Israel because Yahuwah is sweet and good in and of Himself,
and not outside of Himself. He expects that same sweet spirit to be in us, as
it is in Him. Yahuwah makes it clear that neither sin nor wrong motive will get
Him to move on our behalf. He Himself is the sweetness we need. He Himself is
our great reward (Genesis/Bereshith 15:1). We must only approach Yahuwah within
the salt covenant, and not with honey and leaven.
Yahuwah is looking for sacrifices
from our lives as returning Yisrael with eternal, long term, and abiding commitments
in our doctrines and lifestyles. He does not want any offerings made out of
the emotional need of a moment or a knee jerk action. The Israelite must approach
Him with an understanding that any commitment, and any offering cannot be reneged
upon or made into any short-term arrangement. The Babylonian system of religion
from which Yahudah and Ephraim are escaping (Rev. 18:4), are known by their
temporal and shifting doctrines, highlighted by short-term commitments from
both the worshipper and their perception of Yahuwah. A perfect example of the
violation of the Israelite covenant of salt is the kirche's propagation of dispensationalism,
which is all but a guarantee that all their doctrines, teachings, actions, and
understandings will be full of honey and leaven lacking in enduring salt. Honey
is symbolic of manipulation by the worshipper towards the Heavenly Judge.
Salt on the other hand is
a time proven and consistent preservative that prevents decay and corruption
with enduring quality. The forefathers of Yisrael preserved their food with
salt in place of the modern refrigerator. The important things of sustenance
were preserved with salt. Israel’s health was often preserved with baths in
the Salt-Sea, which preserved their skin and appearance. Just as in the physical,
so it is in the spiritual. All the important elements of Israelite worship must
be preserved with salt. Salt typifies abiding, eternality, steadfastness, stability,
and permanence and even the very character and reliability of Abba Yahuwah Himself!
Therefore every sacrifice and every ordinance in the First Covenant by definition
must be eternal, since Israel could only approach Yahuwah with ordinances using
salt offerings. These salt offerings were known to be everlasting due to the
eternal and enduring nature of salt’s preservation power along with what it
implied in the spirit realm. From this understanding, we see that all of Torah
has been preserved by the eternal covenant of salt given to Yisrael. Israelite
worship was to be characterized by steadfast eternal immutability, unlike the
shifting sands of the “pleasure for the moment” motives of the nations.
SOLIDIFYING AND RENEWING
FRIENDSHIP
Salt was also used to seal
a bond of friendship forever. Brethren at an Israelite table would seal
their friendship by the sharing of salt. Salt was a means in Yisrael by which
friends solidified and preserved their commitment to each other by a covenant
of shared salt at a table of shared community. In much the same way, Israelites
were bonded with Yahuwah with all the various approaches to Him being seasoned
with the eternal salt covenant. It is the Master's desire to be sealed with
us in an eternal covenant of friendship seasoned with salt. Now if His best
friend and bride is Israel, and if Israel has sealed that relationship with
salt, then Yahuwah cannot marry a “gentile church bride”, and neither can He
balance two brides through manmade superimposed dispensationalism. He must remain
eternally faithful to Yisrael alone despite Yisrael’s lack of faithfulness,
and despite all other considerations.
Yahuwah, due to His own eternal
covenant of salt, has just two options. He can renew Yisrael through the regeneration
of Ephraim and Judah or He can do nothing. Thankfully as we know according to
Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 31:31, He has chosen the better option for Israel, and has
decided to renew both houses through Yahshua the Moshiach, as well as invite
others to join the renewed Commonwealth. Any creation or birthing of a separate
entity called the church would result in a violation of the eternal covenant
of salt by Yahuwah Himself, which we know is a scriptural impossibility. Yahshua's
renewal of Yisrael through His cleansing blood has been seasoned with the required
salt of endurance and eternal commitment. He relates to us in salt covenant,
and that’s the way He expects us to relate to Him.
“LET
US” CONTINUALLY
Grain seasoned with salt was
symbolic of provision. Even though Israel today is not to literally bring grain
offerings to Yahuwah in the Jerusalem temple, we are to provide grain offering
to His modern day servants as it is written, “Yahuwah hath ordained that those
who preach the Good News, should live [maintain sustenance] from the Good News”(1
Cor. 9:14). So our current grain offering is made to the five fold ministers,
who care for the sheep as well as to the orphan, poor, and widow in our midst.
When Yisrael does these mitzvoth, they are seasoning all their offerings with
salt.
IN THE ABSENCE OF THE
TEMPLE
The Israelite also subjects
his human body and it's passions by self-control according to First Cor. 9:25-27,
lest we should become castaways. So the very offering of our purity through
set-apartness is a seasoning of salt. A Renewed Covenant Yisraelite while not
being able to keep the pashat or literal mitzvah of sundry offerings because
the temple no longer stands, can jump down into the remez or hint level, which
is the second level of scriptural interpretation, which then allows all of Yahudah/Judah
and Ephraim to keep salt covenant by accepting all Torah misphatim and chukim
on a remez level, when AND ONLY WHEN the pashat or literal level cannot
be applied.
Because Christianity cannot
get past their valid but often limited first level/literal interpretation of
scripture, and their unwillingness to adopt anything they perceive to be “too
Jewish”, i.e. the four levels of scriptural interpretation, (since they cannot
bring literal gifts to the Jerusalem Temple) they willfully yet wrongfully dismiss
these ordinances as outdated “Jewish legalism”, which cannot be performed. But
what we are about to see shortly is that ALL can be done by Israel, if and when
a returning Israelite is willing to adopt the Hebraic understanding of scripture,
which allows for a minimum of four basic and valid accepted methods of scriptural
understanding for each mitzvah, in order to make the divine eternal and enduring
connection required by Yahuwah to His eternal bride Yisrael.
So in order for Yahuwah not
to be found to be a liar, He must still provide ways for all mitzvoth to be
performed, though one may have to dig four levels deep to get the method of
approach. Since Yahshua has fulfilled all requirements of the sacrificial system
for blood, grain, and drink offerings, we must now go through Messiah,
since they are all offerings seasoned with His salt to His Father and Elohim.
Yahuwah expects these salt offerings to continue, and to still be guarded but
commands us to do them through Messiah, and through His tabernacle service
in the tabernacle in heaven not pitched with man’s hands. So on a sod/esoteric
level, the sacrifices are eternal due to their being seasoned with salt, and
under the eternal covenant of salt with eternal Israel. Only the realm of
the offerings have changed, NOT THE REQUIREMENTS THEMSELVES. That is exactly
what the Book of Ivrim is all about!
The Christians see Yahshua's
Cohen Hagadol or High Priestly role as one of singing and whistling Amazing
Grace to His Father Abba Yahuwah after having offered His own blood once and
for all. The Israelite does not accept that, seeing rather all of the eternal
salt offerings of the First Covenant tabernacle, as ongoing and as taking PLACE
LITERALLY through Yahshua, who performs them all before Abba Yahuwah, albeit
on a different and invisible plane. So the Sun-Day system of worship will never
understand Torah, and adopt it as their constitution, until and unless they
begin to see things in four dimensions applying all four levels of Hebraic interpretation
before giving up on a mitzvah as “Jewish stuff”. A mitzvah is a commandment
performed, which is literally defined as a divine connection to Yahuwah.
STUCK ON ONE LEVEL
According to Ivrim/Hebrews 13:15, we
are to continue as Israel, to offer “slaughter offerings” to Yahuwah continually,
and forever through our lips. They no longer come from our hands but from our
lips. So it is still Israel that walks in the covenant of salt but we use our
lips rather than our hands and feet. Notice in Hebrews 13:15, the principle
of continuity regarding the offerings seasoned by salt. The
question is who is “the us”, in Ivrim/Hebrews 13:5? The answer is obvious.
Renewed Covenant Yisrael.
If the Torah has been nailed to Calvary
as many claim, then why would Rav Shaul admonish us to perform these mitzvahs
by usage of the term “LET US”, (writing to both houses according
to Hebrews 8:12) offer slaughter offerings…The only people ever to do so
without the honey and leaven, and with salt alone as the preservative, were
are and will be Israel alone from among the nations. Yahuwah’s only and forever
bride. So the obligation of salt offerings continues in the other levels of
Hebraic truth rather than the literal temple. The Ephraimite still stuck in
false religious systems does not see nor comprehend the fact that there are
four gospel records, since the Father Yahuwah determined that His atonement for
Israel be understood on all four levels of Hebraic understanding.
BINDING
OR SEALING THE SACRIFICE
The Christian theologian is puzzled
as to why the four versions of the Besarot/Good News of Messiah, seem to often
contradict each other, when the truth is that they do not. They are written
on all four levels of Hebraic understanding. Mattityahu/Matthew in drash/parables/allegory,
Mark/Moshe in pashat or plain literal simplicity, Luke in remez or hinting style,
and Yochanan/John in sod or on the mystery level. Rav Shaul's epistles feature
all four styles, and the Book of Revelation is totally written on the fourth
level of sod. It is because Christian scholars are stuck in level one, that
they habitually take metaphors and symbolism in the Book of Revelation meant
to be understood as sod in a literal fashion, and therefore fall into some of
the most absurd and childish interpretations of scripture, such as the assertion
that the 200 million soldiers who cross the Euphrates River are actually Asian
Orientals from mainland China, rather than demons released from Tartaros by
the messenger (s.a.tan) with the key to the dark pit (Rev. 13:1). Lack of understanding
of these four levels have resulted in scholars questioning the legitimacy of
both the eternal salt commands of Torah, as well as the very inspiration of
the gospels themselves. And they have no one to blame but themselves.
In order to continually offer
these offerings of salt as Israelites to Yahuwah, we must season these scarifies
with salt. What kind of salt? The Name of Yahuwah according to
Ivrim/ Hebrews 13:15! We are to continue these salt offerings as children of
the salt covenant, salted with the preservation and guarding power of the only
true eternal “salt” Name of Abba, which is Yahuwah. According to Yochanan 17:12,
the invoking of His true Name by His talmidim/disciples, guards these sacrifices
of Torah. Calling on HaShem or Baal/Lord Goad, is not seasoning our sacrifices
to Yahuwah with salt, since according to this verse all offerings must be
salted and bound to the altar with the Name coming from our lips. How many
modern day religious offerings of song, praise, worship and study are being
offered to Yahuwah as strange fire, due to lacking the proper binding and sealing
of the offering by the absence of HIS TRUE NAME!
THE KINGDOM PROMISED
BY SALT TO THE “CHILDREN OF SALT”
According to Second Divre
HaYamim/Second Chronicles 13:5, Yahuwah has given the kingdom to David and to
David’s seed Israel FOREVER. Yahuwah says in this verse that He has done so by
the guarantee and immutability of the Torah principle of the salt covenant.
Therefore the Kingdom of Yahuwah both now, and in the atid lavoh/millennium, will
be to Israel’s seed alone, (Ephraim and Judah plus their companions), as a bonded
salt covenant between Yahuwah and Yisrael, for Yahuwah Himself has made that guarantee.
Since we are heirs of David’s physical Kingdom, (Romans 8:17) we are the children
of David, and the heirs of this eternal friendship covenant of and by salt.
All the enduring Torah promises that are in Him and are yea and amein preserve
us as Israel. None of the Torah salt offerings have been overturned by Yahshua
into no and “no-mein” or “Lo-Mein”. Messiah Yahshua came from David’s
loins, and thus His throne in Israel as Messiah, and the tabernacle in which
He ministers in the heavens are both established by David’s salt convent with
Yahuwah, that has been renewed by Messiah Himself, as the “Greater David” over
both houses of Israel. His lineage and throne are both established by a covenant
of salt. If Messiah Yahshua rules on David’s throne, then the people He rules
over cannot by definition be a so called “gentile church” but must be the heirs
of the salt covenant of all the children of Jacob both from the Jewish tribes
and the non-Jewish ten tribes of Israel (Luke 1:33). Yahuwah’s covenant was,
is and, always will be with Yahudah and Ephraim, and their companions. Not the
companions of Rome and Wittenberg, Germany. Yahshua's blood, along with His
friendship covenant of salt, guarantees Israel’s eternal security as Yahshua's
bride.
A RENEWED COVENANT TO
THE CHILDREN OF SALT
The children of salt are further
identified in Yermeyahu/Jeremiah 33:20-21. A covenant of salt and friendship
between Yahuwah and Israel is as strong and secure as is the covenant Yahuwah
has with day and night. Reversing Israel’s position as Yahuwah’s only bride is
as impossible as breaking the laws of nature according to these verses. That’s
how powerful a covenant of salt is. It is as irreversible, as is Yahuwah’s bond
with nature. When nature ceases then Israel will cease, and Israel’s Torah will
cease. But not one moment before. The children of salt are as bonded to Yahuwah
as are the ordinances of salt. Salt covenants and ordinances cannot be altered,
changed, done away with, repealed, broken or changed. The Torah, the Throne
of David, and the bond of love between Yahuwah and Israel, are all seasoned with
salt. Even the modern Judahite season of Passover finds all Passover foods adjacent
to a literal bowl of salt, where all Passover items are dipped in a bowl of
saltwater, reminding us of Yahuwah’s eternal promise of inheritance, and deliverance
to both houses of Israel, even in bitter times.
UNDERSTANDING YAHSHUA
In Mattithyahu/Matthew 5:13
Moshiach says, “You are the SALT OF THE EARTH, BUT IF THE SALT SHOULD LOSE
ITS FLAVOR, WHEREWITH SHALL IT BE SALTED? IT IS HENCEFORTH GOOD FOR NOTHING
BUT TO BE CAST OUT AND BE TRODDEN UNDER FOOT OF MEN.”
Now.. Do you know of any “professing”
believers in Messiah who have taken 3/4th of scriptures made up mostly
of eternal ordinances, and just because they are found to the left side of Matthew,
and have willfully discarded those eternal ordinances of salt? Do you know any
“professing” believers who have taken salt and thrown out the eternal parts
of salt that they either didn’t like or didn’t understand? Weren’t the talmidim
the very ones called out to uphold all the eternal or salt ordinances of Yahuwah?
Was not Yahshua Himself prophesying that His very own disciples who were
called to be preservers of all things according to Matthew 5:19-29, would be
the very ones that would lose their saltiness by discarding misunderstood portions
of eternal salt covenants, and their statues? The only men and women that can
lose their salt are the very ones who have had it all along, and the very ones
that can lose it if they don’t guard it.
Again by simple definition,
one can only lose salt if they have the salt, and in correct biblical context
it was the citizens of David’s Kingdom that were the ones having the responsibility
of preserving all things seasoned with salt. If Genesis to Revelation has been
seasoned with salt…. And if Yahshua’s WAYWARD talmidim/disciples are only preserving
and dispensing Matthew through Revelation through adoption of their separate
entity theology, and by ignoring the salt of the First Covenant, they then have
in fact LOST THEIR SALT AS CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Thus the lost children of
Israel!
How many worthless,
tasteless, and half-baked sermons and teachings (raw and not cooked with salt)
have church leaders and imams offered up in the stead of Torah’s love (Hosea
8:7)? In order for Israel’s children to reclaim all their salt covenants,
they must recommit to return to Torah, and begin to teach and proclaim the full
counsel of Yahuwah, that includes the Torah and the Renewed Covenant, as both
being equally applicable and eternal for all believers in all generations.
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
FINALLY REVEALED
Since the throne of Israel
was established by a salt covenant, and since we are the sons and daughters
of that Davidic Kingdom, then on the sod or the hidden fourth level of interpretation,
Yahshua is saying to us today that “you are the salt of the earth” (Matt.
5:13) or YOU ARE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL!!!!!! ‘I have come to regather
the children of salt back into their own kingdom’, which never was a Jewish
kingdom, since Jews did not leave Egypt nor receive Torah. Israel did. If the
children of Israel are the salt of the earth according to the Messiah, and His
talmidim/disciples are the salt of the earth, then all the TRUE law abiding
disciples in all generations are the seed of Israel. For only Israel is the
salt of the earth, and only Israel seasons their offerings without honey and
leaven but with the preserving power of salt alone. The reason these disciples
were listening and obeying Yahshua by being drawn to Him, is because they were
the children of salt, and Yahshua is calling them back to take their rightful
place in rightful understanding, in the Kingdom Age to come, as the renewed
reseasoned children of salt. Messiah Yahshua reminds us in places such as Matthew
15:24, that He has only come for the lost sheep of the House of Israel, (all
12 tribes in this context) and as such by declaring HIS DISCIPLES to be the
earth’s salt, He directly correlates them back to their PHYSICAL ANCESTORS who
stood at Sinai’s base, as they received the living oracles of salt to be offered
in worship back to Yahuwah for all eternity.
As children of salt, we are
to bring the salt of Torah and Messiah to all of Yisrael (Yeshayahu/Isaiah
8:14-16; 8:20). IF THE SALT LOSES IT'S NEWFOUND IDENTITY AS THE
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF SALT, WE WILL LOSE OUR FOCUS AND DIRECTION, AS HAVE OUR
BELIEVING FOREFATHERS, along with the true message of the kingdom.
LET ALL ISRAEL EXIT THE CHURCH
SYSTEM TODAY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TODAY, (2 COR. 6:2) AND RE-ENTER ISRAEL’S COMMONWEALTH,
IN ORDER TO RE-INHERIT THEIR STATUS AS THE CHILDREN OF SALT, THE TRUE YISRAEL
OF YAHUWAH (GAL.6: 16).
CALLED TO BE SALT SHAKERS
When one loses their corporate
identity as Israel, they are not only tossed to and fro by strange winds of
doctrine, (Ephesians 4:14 &11) they are candidates to be trodden underfoot
by men! And men’s dogmas! This is further addressed in Ivrim/Hebrews 6:5-6,
where Yahuwah warned believers who have TASTED THE SALT OF ALL the good Word
of Yahuwah including the eternal First Covenant mishpatim, if they [should] fall
away from all salt ordinances, they cannot be used by Yahuwah again. For Yahuwah
will not allow lawless iniquity filled “professing” believers to be salt to
others, when they themselves are not salt any longer, having forfeited that
calling as Israel, foolishly claiming that Israelite identity is no longer important
or that it was never taught by Messiah.
If we as Israel lose the salt
we have in us through this latter-day renewal of all 12 tribes, we not only
lose our power, and authority as the bride of Messiah but we also put our Master
to open shame by doctrinally pitting him against His Father, as His Father seemingly
loves Torah, while the Son seemingly desires to remove it, as He is often misunderstood
by Greco-Roman “believers”. Since the antinomian anti-salt covenant Gee Zoos
is not the Yahshua of scripture, who seasoned all His talmidim/disciples with
salt and, called us to teach all the salt ordinances of Israel, we must never
put our loving and caring King to open ridicule and shame by being a false witness
of Yahuwah’s eternality and immutability in teaching the Gee Zoos doctrine, rather
than the faith of Yahshua Himself! We as Israel are called to have BOTH the
faith of Yahshua, as well as faith in Yahshua!
Any salt-shaker (Israelite)
that uses half of the shaker only, (Matthew to Revelation) is already being
trodden under the feet and influence of wayward apostate men, and their manmade
dogmatic replacement Torahs said to be weak, worldly and beggarly (Galatians
4:8-11)! Do you know any believers that can no longer dispense the salt that
they've been called to dispense, due to their not seeing their true identity
and their true PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL heritage in Yakkov?
WHY
TRUE MESSIANIC YISRAELITES ARE MISUNDERSTOOD
In addition to being a preservative,
salt is an irritant. When put in an open wound it irritates, hurts and stings.
When we are truly being Messianic Yisrael in lifestyle not just in doctrine,
we become stinging irritants to those around us who are wounded by false religion,
as found in the Sin Day and Friday systems. Rather than hearing and seeing their
need for medicine and healing (Torah), they act out against the salt, as if
the salt is to blame. The salt when fully salted represents Yahuwah, not themselves
or their own doctrine or their own understanding. When the salt that’s designed
to create a strong thirst for true teaching in Israel, rubs folks the wrong
way, they try and stifle and offset the salt by removing the saltiness rather
than allowing the salt to be the cause for them to fill their hunger and thirst
with His true and eternal ways not subject to the religious winds, doctrines
and temporal solutions of this age.
The salt of Israelite truth
always causes irritation in the religiously prideful and blind, along with those
set in their manmade ways. Wayward church folks including many pastors, consider
any salt truths that are found to the left of Matthew’s Gospel in the “good
book”, to be an irritant. But any salt that does not include the ordinances
of Torah is not true Israelite salt. True salt often brings out the worst in
lawless people but can also bring out the best in you, and your personal return
to Yahuwah. The truth of the matter is that true salt in the hands of true children
of salt is designed to preserve wayward Ephraim and Yahudah in the eternal paths,
and not to hurt, sting or irritate them, as it does with the lost or deceived.
TALKING TO HIS TALMIDIM
Mark/Moshe 9:49 states that
“for everyone shall [must] be seasoned with fire, and EVERY
OFFERING SHALL BE [FUTURE IMPERATIVE] SEASONED WITH SALT”. In Mark/Moshe
9:44-48, Yahshua speaks of torment in the lake of fire for the unbelievers.
Then He reiterates the Torah principle that in order to avoid punishment and
the second death, [not eternal torment, rather eternal death in the Lake of
Fire Rev. 20:14; Ezekiel 18:4] EVERYONE [ALL TRUE BELIEVERS] MUST
BE SEASONED WITH THE SALT OF TORAH, AND MUST OFFER ALL TORAH OFFERINGS CONTINUALLY
in accordance with His word. So clearly we see Yahshua making all eternal Torah
mishpatim and chookim, as necessities for all His talmidim, not just for witnessing
purposes but for the expressed purpose of offering Him true pleasing personal
worship in order to ESCAPE DAMNATION. All of Torah keeping, Messiah loving Israel,
(Rev. 14:12) will escape His wrath (First Thess. 5:9) through deliverance during
the Great Tribulation, either by martyrdom or preservation through Yahuwah’s
salt pact with Yisrael.
OUR BLESSED RETURN
In Mark/Moshe 9:50 Yahshua
warns us to have salt in ourselves, (Torah faith and lifestyles) and
BE AT PEACE WITH ONE ANOTHER. ALL THE SALT ORDINANCES MUST BE FOUND IN ALL SALTED
BELIEVERS, who claim to be sons and daughters of Yisrael, according to Messiah.
The implication here on the sod or secret level of this saying, is that only
Torah when accepted and re-instituted in all of Israel by both houses for both
Yahudah and Ephraim, can finally bring peace and true shalom in equality between
battling brethren. True peace and shalom among disciples cannot happen between
the two houses until both houses realize that they are both equal Israelite
heirs in our Messiah. Only those who have salt in themselves, and walk
out Torah principles in their own lives, can walk with their Torah honoring
brethren in a joint and mutual return to the nation of Yisrael (Ezekiel 37:23-24).
A disciple sees him or herself as a survivor of the Diaspora, and sees a return
to Torah, Messiah, and the land, as the ONLY road to travel. You will soon find
others on the same road, and will be able to walk together in peace, and in
confidence (Amos 3:3). Part of that salt awakening is the recognition that there
are no longer Jews and Gentiles in the faith of our Messiah but that all are
Israelites, and all are being summoned to a state of blessed return from spiritual
and physical exile.
Selah
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