From FULL RESTORATION OF ALL ISRAEL series THE END TIME SOLUTION TO REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY
THE END TIME SOLUTION TO
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY!
By Rabbi/Brother Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky
Part Three On Israel’s Exciting, and
Glorious End Time Restoration!
The hideous falsehood known as
replacement theology has been a cancer in theological circles for the past two
millennia that just seems to refuse to go away. While replacement theology takes
on different applications, and modes, it is a theology originated by the early
non Jewish fathers of the so called "Christian Church". It coldly
states that a new Rome centered, and Roman based ecclesiastical organization
called "the church", is the "new Israel". This new Israel,
would now forever replace Jewish Israel, since Yahweh permanently rejected the
Jews for killing their Messiah, His Son. Extreme proponents of replacement
theology have even gone so far as to claim that Yahweh, the mean, and cruel
despot, was the Elohim of the Old Covenant Jews, as opposed to Yahshua who is
the forever loving, kind, and compassionate Elohim who had REPLACED YAHWEH AS
LORD OF "THE CHURCH" OR THE SO CALLED "NEW ISRAEL". In other
words, Yahshua’s people have replaced the Father’s people.
This hideous doctrine is by no means a
small theological side issue to be argued in a local pub. It has been at the
forefront of antisemitism, Judeo-phobia, and has fully provided fuel for tragic
historical events such as the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic Crusades, the
ouster of the Jews from every European country, as well as the Nazi holocaust.
As history clearly demonstrates, Martin Luther, and other Protestant reformers
blueprinted both the call, and the plans for the annihilation of the Jewish
nation from Europe, and later the world by providing "so called
Christians", with biblical justification to perpetrate genocide on world
Jewry. Adolph Hitler knew full well that he could find theological approval, and
support from these church folks. The inbred functionalism of this spiritual
cancer amongst those that preach Yahshua is so widespread that it cannot be
fully reversed, and eliminated until Yahshua’s millennial reign begins shortly
when He returns to the earth. Even such seemingly benign church doctrines such
as "Kingdom Now" theology or "Dominion" theology, where the
so called "church" will christianize the world through the
establishment of the bible as a global constitution, and whereby all world
powers, and authorities will be won to, and taken over by Christendom, are
nothing more than new attempts at replacing the "troublesome Jews".
Wasn’t this flawed global christianization program, whereby Yahshua would
merely take over a globally loyal populace converted through church efforts,
already tried numerous times? Historically they were called the Crusades,
Inquisitions, and Pogroms. Was it not the Crusaders who were attempting to take
the globe by the sword, and convert, and subdue it by the gospel?
The theology of "Dominion
Now" or "Kingdom Now", is nothing but a papal farce, designed to
enlist Protestants in a new age attempt to liquidate the Jewish race, by
theology rather than by a sword.
They believe twentieth century man will not respond favorably to any elimination
of the Jewish nation via bloodletting. Therefore in these last days, we see a
major resurgence in "church" theology, designed to subdue, and
eliminate the Jew. In these various applications of replacement theology, the
Jew has no future whatsoever unless he agrees to become one with "the
church", and assimilate his precious customs, feasts, seventh day
Sabbaths, and the rest of his national identity through incorporation or more
accurately through disappearance, and integration within "the church".
These hideous theologies call anything
Jewish to be anti Christ, and legalistic. Jewish practices are not welcome in their
church systems. It is simply fascinating to me that "the church" has
this insatiable desire to institute biblical law, and church sovereignty over
the globe by spreading Yahweh’s laws, when one of the major errors within
Christianity is the very rejection, and the denial of the validity of first
covenant instruction in New Covenant times.
The so called "church" system
has repeatedly, and pridefully proclaimed to its adherents that the Torah or the
laws of first covenant Israel are passed away, and nailed to the cross, and
have therefore been replaced by the second covenant law, which is love, baby,
love. In other words, this man made ecclesiastical organization started,
funded, and headquartered in Rome, now wants to force their paganized
Christendom down the throats of the worlds populace, with obedience to THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, and other teachings all based on the Decalogue, all the while
instructing her very own members that it is not applicable to the
New Covenant "church". Now you talk about confusion! How can a man
made ecclesiastical system that is boastfully, and wrongfully antinomian
(anti-Torah), at it’s very core theology, force the world’s populace to
submit to rules, and regulations that they themselves loath as having preceded
from the Jewish despot named Yahweh, and His Jews? Remember that in true
replacement theology a pagan blonde haired, and blue eyed European, pork eating
Jesus (the English translation of the sun deity Zeus), has replaced Yahweh the
Father as LORD (from the pagan deity Lourdes), over his "church" (from
the pagan circular ritual conducted by the Celts).
The most disturbing part of all this is
that replacement theology continues to spread overtly, and covertly in these
last days seemingly unchecked, and undetected by born again folks of all
denominations, as well as by Messianic Jews. As this study progresses you will
find, and discover the alarming fact that modern day Messianic Judaism has in
most cases fallen into the same trap of replacement theology that they loath,
and despise. Messianic Judaism has every right to loath replacement theology.
However through error, and pride they not only forsake the true solution to the
error of replacement theology, (which is readily available by studying the
scriptures accurately with an open mind), but worse yet, they have unknowingly
become accomplices to the doctrine itself.
Before we demonstrate the biblically
prescribed means for the elimination of this hideous creed, we will learn a few
more insights into this doctrine of replacement theology. The first error of
this false doctrine is that the church has replaced Israel (the Jews) as the
historic continuation of the people of Israel. According to this line of
reasoning, Jewish Israel ceased from being a people, with a historic relevancy
to Yahweh at Pentecost in 33 AD. In other words, a total cessation of all
eternal promises, and blessings which had been promised to the Jews, had come
about because of the New Covenant "church", who unilaterally declared
the first covenant promises to the Jews null, and void. The truth of course is
that the physical descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had, and will
continue to have a crucial, and vital role in the historical, and redemptive
purposes of the Father. Replacement theology declares that the Jews are no
different than any other people group, and that their chosen status
was self appointed, and has ceased when their "European" non
Jewish (Jesus) went to the cross.
The truth of course is that no other
nation before or since has been earmarked by Yahweh to work out His redemptive,
and earthly will, as has Israel (12 tribes). Replacement theology teaches that
unless or until Jews get saved, they are cursed, and have no future or national
calling, unless they willingly join, and incorporate themselves into the
man-made "church". This fallacy teaches that unsaved Jews are lower
than other unsaved peoples from other nationalities because they are in fact the
murderers of Yahshua, and therefore eternally guilty of deocide. The truth is of
course just the opposite. Even in their unbelief they are favored, and have
given life, and hope to the world by their preservation of the Word of Yahweh,
in their role of guardians (Romans 3:2), and in their re-habitation of the
waste places of the land of Israel. Romans 11:15 reminds us that even in their
status as unbelieving Jews, that the world was reconciled to Yahweh by that very
status. Romans 11:15 then talks about the dawn of a new day when Jewish Israel
will be raised from the dead spiritually to receive favor. Romans 11:26 is a
clear reminder that all Israel (Judah & Ephraim) will be saved! Does that
sound like a people permanently replaced, and with no future outside of the
Roman Church, and her harlot offspring? Jewish Israel has been, and will
continue to be supernaturally preserved for the revelation to her of her beloved
Messiah Yahshua, in whose Name they have suffered so very much. His return will
bring them much love, even as His first advent has brought them so much sorrow
from the "so called church".
Replacement theology states that
starting in 33 AD at Shavuot or Pentecost, the Jews inherited all the curses of
the Torah found in Deuteronomy chapters 28-33, while keeping none of the
promised blessings outlined in those same chapters. The promises of blessing has
been separated from the curses, with the curses falling upon Jewish Israel, and
naturally the blessings falling into the lap of the Pontiff Maximus (Supreme
Divine King), the unholy father in Rome, and his disciples. "The
church" superimposes a doctrine called "the birth of the church at
Pentecost", to justify this separation between Jewish cursing, and
Christian blessing. The truth is that the clear promises of blessing to
Jewish/Israel are often unconditional, such as the promise of the land of
Israel. He has never revoked this promised land blessing. Taken to its false,
and illogical conclusion if the church is the new Israel replacing Jewish Israel
as the chosen people, then "the church" is the rightful owner of the
land of Israel, since the land was a blessing, and not a curse. According to
popery, (which by the way still does not recognize either the modern state of
Israel or the set apart city of Jerusalem), the land of Israel
belongs to them, since they are now Israel instead of or in place of Jewish
Israel. If your blood is boiling by now welcome to the club. In Protestant
circles even in some Hebrew Christian circles (a dying dinosaur if there ever
was one), the eternal unconditional promise of Eretz Yisrael to all Israel (12
tribes including the Jews), is often referred to as the Palestinian Land
Covenant. Did you catch that terminology? Despite the living reality of the
modern state of Israel, many within the so called "church", have, and
continue to refer to Israel as Palestine, named after the Palestinians the
modern day descendents of the Philistines who were the ancient enemies of
Israel. No wonder the unregenerate pope refuses to recognize Jerusalem, since
according to Rome’s replacement theology, and her privately trained seers,
very shortly the Vatican will be moving her headquarters, or will at least attempt
to, to Jerusalem. After all if the "church" has replaced Jewish
Israel, she needs a Jewish capital to govern from thereby sealing this
replacement not only of a people but also of her eternal capital. Rest
assured the King of the Jews will not, ever allow that to happen despite the
wishful thinking of papists, and ecumenical supporters worldwide.
For a more favorable treatment of Romanism why not study Revelation chapters 17
through 19, and see if perhaps the Heavenly Father, (the true Holy Father), is
more loving, and tolerant toward false apostate Roman ecclesiastical heresy than
Your Arms To Israel. (Just Kidding)!
Replacement theology has the chutzpah
(nerve) to teach that the scriptures must be read spiritually, and absolutely
not taken literally, since to do so would force one to conclude that Jewish
Israel is an eternally chosen, and recognizable people with a special calling,
and a special land, over, and above all the peoples of the globe. In order for
the students of scripture to be made to believe in the doctrine of replacement
theology, a demand is made upon them to understand that the promises made to
Jewish Israel must not be taken literally. In other words when the
first covenant uses terms like, Zion, Temple, Jerusalem, promised land, they are
all now synonyms for the so called "church". This craziness has
also settled itself in publishing houses that publish scripture. The BB
Kirkbride Company in Indiana that publishes the widely used Thompson Chain
Reference Bible, has multiple chapter captions in Isaiah, and other first
covenant books that read "Isaiah comforts the church", or "the
church is consoled". Time out! When or where did the church exist in
Isaiah’s day? I have even heard Christian teachers state that if Adam, and Eve
hadn’t fallen into original sin, that they would have had continual
"church" with Elohim. Can you believe that? Taken to its
illogical conclusion Adam, and Eve went to church until they were thrown out of
the Garden of Eden.
The truth is simple, and Yahweh is not
psychotic. When He uses the term Jerusalem, it is a literal city He has in mind.
When He refers to the nation of Israel, it is the12 tribes He has in mind. When
He refers to the Jews, it is the Jews He has in mind. When He refers to Zion, it
is the land, and Mt. Moriah He has in mind. These are all literal terms, and
titles of different, concepts, places, and locations. To boldly, and incorrectly
teach that these are all interchangeable, and synonymous terms for the "so
called Christian church", is an outright attack on the literal
infallibility, and inspiration of scripture, let alone a direct attack on the
Heavenly Father’s linguistic intelligence!
This doctrine is so deeply imbedded in
"church" circles of all denominations, that unless the biblical final
solution to this mess is applied immediately, and without reservation, then we
must await the arrival of Yahshua Himself to teach us correctly. (Two excellent
works on this subject are "Our Hands Are Stained With Blood" by
Dr. Michael Brown, and The Road To Holocaust by Hal Lindsey, where the
above facts are totally documented with direct quotes, and actions of the early
"church" fathers). The problem with waiting for Yahshua to straighten
things out at His return, is that by then we will be judged by Yahshua at His
return. He reminds us that by our words we will be justified, and by our words
(teachings ) we will be condemned (Matt. 12:37). In James (Yaakov 3:1),Yahshua
reminds us that not many should seek to be teachers of scripture, since we will
receive the greater judgment for the errors we dispense. Rav Shaul (Paul), also
confirms this truth when he declares that if we are willing to judge ourselves
we will not be judged by our Master Yahshua (First Corinthians 11:31).
Replacement theology must be cleaned
up, and must be cleaned up immediately. That is beyond question but the problem
for true pure hearted believers everywhere is how? The urgency of the moment
cries out for a bible based solution!
In our attempt to correct this problem
we must first demonstrate that replacement theology is fueled, and nurtured by a
false belief system that declares via various teachings that the
"church" is the New Covenant bride of Yahweh, when scripture over, and
over talks about Israel, and Israel alone being Yahweh’s bride. In order for
Yahweh to be true to His Word, and not break the scriptures about covenant
marriage faithfulness, He cannot have two brides, neither can He set aside, and
divorce one group of people in place of, or in favor of another. To do that He
would have to violate, and break literally hundreds of scriptures where He
cautioned mankind not to practice spiritual adultery through double devotion.
Yahshua stated that the Creator did not intend for mankind to dispose one wife
in favor of another (Matt.19:3-8). If the so called "church" is a
separate entity from Israel (12 tribes), then we are faced with Yahweh being a
practicing spiritual adulterer, with two brides called the Jews, and "the
church". This would violate the scriptural principal that Yahweh only
has had one bride called to covenant faithfulness in order that through the set
apartness of that one bride, His witness would go forth in the earth. The one
people known as His bride can produce multiple witnesses on Yahweh’s behalf, but
they must all proceed from the same nation or the same people. If something
man made called the "church", really does exist, then how can we
explain Yahshua’s words where He tells us that when all is said, and done,
through His blood atonement, and redemption that He, and His Father will be
left not with two flocks, but rather with ONE (John 11:52, John
10:16)! In John 10:16, Yahshua states that there will be one flock not two.
Starting in 325AD through the blasphemous efforts of Constantine, and his
cohorts, the non Jewish disciples divorced themselves from their believing
Jewish brethren, forsook the teachings of the eyewitness apostles, (Shabbat,
Passover, celebration of the resurrection of Yahshua on the Feast of First
Fruits or Bikkurim), in favor of a new blend of Messianic faith, with the Roman
emperor as Pontificus Maximus (pope), which naturally was Constantine, leading
the way. Thus were established two flocks claiming Yahshua as Elohim. One legal
with apostolic sanction, instruction, and teaching, and one whose loyalty was
split between faith, and state, between Yahshua, and Miriam (Mary), between
Yahweh the Son, and the invincible sun, and its forbidden worship! This new
flock made a total divorce, and separation from their believing Jewish brethren
who upheld the sanctity of Torah, and the glory of Messiah. Thus many early
divorcees in this new breakaway flock mixed or synchronized sun worship with Son
worship, bringing the two into a perverted form of Messianic pantheism, where
all is Elohim, and Elohim is all. In this perversion Yahshua shares His glory
with myriads of saints, statues, beads, idols, and His mother!
The sad history of this breakaway,
illegal, and renegade flock is well documented in any world book or
encyclopedia, and space does not allow for further elaboration on this
historical fact. An overwhelming desire to practice such amalgamated worship as
well as hate Jews, gave birth to this cult. This flock even went so far as to
say that the Messianic Scriptures that were written primarily to declare Yahweh’s
faithfulness in fulfilling the promise of Messiah to His people Israel, was a
New Testament replacing an Old one, thereby breaking the continuity, and
relevancy of all of scripture! The anti-Semitic terms (Old, and New Testament),
were first used, and later propagated by Jerome in his translation of the
scriptures into the Latin vulgate, where the term New Testament first appeared.
The truth of course is that there is nothing new about the New Covenant. It
merely confirms the continuity between the promise of Messiah, and the
fulfillment of that promise through Messiah. It is a continuation of the Torah!
The Elohim of Yisrael has one covenant
people who keep both covenants, celebrate Yahweh’s Feasts, Yahweh’s Shabbat,
and who are eternally chosen by grace through faith.
The Elohim Of Israel has had, does now have, and will always have only one
people that He chose to be married to, and that is Israel. Israel means
an overcoming victorious prince with Yahweh. He states verbally as well as
through principal, that He only has one bride not two. If He doesn’t have bad
hair days, and doesn’t choose two brides both named Israel, one day loving
one, and on another day loving the other, then we are left to conclude
that the redeemed born again community of New Covenant Messianic faith is the
Israel of Yahweh as Rav Shaul states in Galatians 6:16. In this
Israel of Yahweh you will find both Jewish, and non Jewish believers. All those
from within the nations that are redeemed by the blood of Yahshua join the
commonwealth of Israel, where they are said to hold literal
citizenship (Ephesians 2:12-19). Non Jewish believers (Ephraimites),
join or rejoin Israel, and by virtue of this rejoining, restoration,
and rebuilding of David’s fallen Tabernacle (Acts 15:14-16, Amos
9:8-11), Israel is alive, and well, thriving, and flourishing under Yahshua,
Israel’s King. Those who claim to be "in the church", or part of
"the church", are walking outside the recognized boundaries of
scriptural Israel.
The true born again body of New
Covenant Israel is a single commonwealth made up of believing Jews, believing
Ephraimites, (Hosea1:10-11), as well as some perhaps true Gentiles. However we
must remember that the Father’s primary stated purpose in sending Yahshua as
Messiah was to restore the Tabernacle Of David which had fallen in 921BCE, and
to rebuild the goodly fair olive tree of divinely planted Israel! (Judah, and
Ephraim according to Jeremiah 11:13-16). In Matthew 15:24, Yahshua said
He came only for the lost sheep of the House of Israel. He did not say He came
for Jews or Gentiles. Remember that the Greek word for Gentiles is ethnos,
which is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Goyim. That is why your
bible does not always talk about the ten tribes of Ephraim being saved through
Yahshua. When Yahshua saves the nations of the world within that global net,
guess who you will find turning up? The individual descendents of the ten
northern tribes return as individual members from amongst the nations from
whence they had been preserved (Isaiah 49:5-6), and called out, no longer
recognizable or even identifiable as Israelites. In Hosea 7:8, scripture states
of Ephraim/Israel that " Ephraim be-amim hue yitbolel", which
literally means "Ephraim will be assimilated amongst the nations! Notice
it does not say within Judah! According to the Talmud this
understanding is central, basic, and paramount to any form of legitimate
Judaism. In Yebamot 17A, it states "the lost ten tribes
were legally classified as Gentiles to all intents, and purposes, even though
they are destined to return, at the present time they have the status of
non Jews, and that is how it was prophesied their status would be". Therefore
any form or branch of Judaism that fails to recognize that Ephraim has become
the last days Gentiles of the earth, and of the nations, is a branch of Judaism
that denies a basic, and cardinal tenet of the biblical Jewish faith since in
this case Talmud, and scripture agree!
Notice that contrary to claims that the
ten tribes were swallowed up by the modern day Jewish people, the Jewish faith
teaches the opposite. It teaches that the ten tribes became Gentiles in every
legal sense of the term. Please don’t get angry at Your Arms To Israel for
teaching this precious reality, and deviating in this one point from the rest of
Messianic Judaism! In my prophetic office, I must be loyal first, and foremost
to revealed scriptural truth, rather than man made steering committees. Go, and
get annoyed at many born again leaders, who continue to tell so called
"Gentile believers", that they are by no means physical Israel,
and that they are at best something called "spiritual Israel", and at
worst associate members, who cannot vote, and who have no legitimate right to be
called returning Israel, since
that right is reserved only for Judahites, those descended from just three
tribes!
If you are a congregational leader who
finally sees the truth about true New Covenant Israel being composed of the
ongoing reunification of the two houses of Israel, then write to us, and we will
enlist your assembly into the Union of Two House Messianic Congregations immediately with no
questions asked or long forms to be filled out, as you enlist in the fastest
growing Messianic organization in the world, made up of Israelites from both
houses along with grafted in Gentiles, who become Israel upon their
engrafting!
In light of this reality, His people
are the one single born again people of Israel, who are spiritually saved, and
redeemed, but who also have legitimate claims to being physically descended
from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The second breakaway, renegade
outlaw flock, that called themselves "the church", would not have had
this need to be Israel, and replace the Jews as Israel, if they would have had
this revelation that most of them were already physical Israel. They would not
have been in such a hurry to divorce themselves from their Jewish believing
brethren, and their Hebraic roots. James in James 1:1, does not write to two
communities of New Covenant faith, rather he addresses the body of Yahshua
as the 12 tribes. In First Corinthians 10:1-9, Rav Shaul (Paul) a Jewish
Rabbi, and completed Pharisee, stated that the physical fathers of the
Corinthian assembly or ekklessia, were the very ones that along with his
physical fathers (notice in verse one the term "our"), left
Egypt, and disobeyed Yahweh in the wilderness. Over, and over again the inspired
writings of the Renewed (second) Covenant through Messiah teach us that Yahshua
came to set up His ekklessia or His called out assembly. Since He along with all
other New Covenant writers were inspired to write about the one single flock
or called out assembly known as Israel (Galatians 6:16), therefore any other
flock must be illegal, fleshly, and illegitimate. Once we ascertain that
Yahweh is not in any shape, form, or manner, a practicing, and confused
polygamist, then we can recognize what scripture clearly teaches. We will find
that non Jewish believers in Yahshua (Ephraim), were called to leave behind
their penchant for paganism, and join the redeemed Jewish people in New Covenant
Israel. It was not, and is not the Father’s will for believing Jews to leave
Israel, and all that that entails, by joining something manmade, and
unrecognizable to the believing Jew, as well as to Yahweh Himself. The called
out believers from the nations (Ephraim), as well as those Jews called out of
traditional Rabbinical Judaism, are called in scripture the ekklessia of
Yahshua. Remember that Yahshua came to save Jews from sin not from Judaism.
Once we have a proper understanding
about the term ekklessia used scores of times in the Messianic Scriptures, then
we will have our final solution to the disgraceful disease of replacement
theology!
Everywhere our English bibles use the
word or the phrase "church", it is a terrible translation,
mistranslation, and perverted understanding of the Greek word ekklessia,
along with its intended original meaning. The English translators as well as
earlier monks, and papists, took the word ekklessia which literally, and quite
simply means "the ones called out", or a "called out
assembly", and translated the word as "church". The result of
this terrible action gave license to the early Jew haters of the 4th
century AD, to pin this unscriptural moniker (church) on themselves, thereby
allowing themselves ("non Jewish "believers"), to reorganize, and
reconstitute themselves under Constantine, and his amalgamation of Messianic
faith with sun, and emperor worship. These breakaway renegades proudly used this
word "church" derived from the word "kirch" of Celtic
pagan origin, to SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY OF MESSIANIC
FAITH, KNOWN INTERCHANGEABLY AS ISRAEL, THE NAZARENES OF ISRAEL, OR THE
"WAY" OF ISRAEL.
This separate breakaway entity based in
Rome, then declared herself to be the new, and improved Israel, the true Israel
that had arrived to do Yahshua’s will, and eliminate Jewish Israel by any
means including the sword. This separate entity did not recognize Yahweh as the
Sovereign who sent The Son they claimed to love. This separate entity changed
the Feasts, dietary laws, and the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and claimed to have no
ties whatsoever with Jewish Israel. This separate entity wrestled the title of
Israel away from the early Messianic community that included all nations, and
stated that the saved remnant of the Jewish nation was not welcome as Jews in
this renegade separate entity. This separate entity called itself "the
church", and its adherents were called Christians. Acts 11:26
confirms this truth by stating that the early disciples were first called
Christians. Notice that Yahweh never called born again Israelites by that
name, rather it was man who called non Jewish believers Christians.
Later these non Jewish "so called Christians", separated into the
separate entity that for the next two millennia would be called "the
church". With two separate entities vying for the much treasured title of
Israel, is it any wonder that Jewish Israel has become the victim rather than
the covering for Messianic faith?
Keeping in mind that the Greek word for
church is ekklessia, we will allow scripture, and history to explain to
us that ekklessia in Greek was understood by all the writers of inspiration to
be a reference to Israel, and the people of Israel. Approximately 150 years
before Yahshua the blessed Holy One was born in Bethlehem of Judea, seventy of
the leading traditional non Messianic rabbis got together to translate
the Hebrew Tanach (First Covenant) from Hebrew which was the original language
of inspiration, to the widely spoken common Greek language which was the
universal language of that time. The translation produced became known as the
Septuagint in honor of the seventy scholars who translated the work.
Every time the 70 traditional rabbis
came to the Hebrew words Kehilah, Kehelat or Adat, they without fail translated
the words into the Greek word "ekklessia". This same word is
translated in English as "church" in the Brit Chadashah.
Kehela, Kehelat, and Adat are all titles used to designate Yahweh’s single
covenant people, Israel. In both covenants whenever ekklessia is used in either
the Hebrew Septuagint or the Greek New Covenant, it never refers to any group
other than twelve tribe Israel! From a linguistic standpoint alone, the
word ekklessia could not mean "church". The assembly or
congregation or gathering of Israelites was, is, and always will be the
ekklessia.
Some modern translations are at long
last correcting previous erroneous English translations. More, and more newer
translations have thankfully eliminated the term "church", and are
rendering ekklessia correctly as assembly. Following that same line of
understanding into the Messianic or New Covenant scriptures, we see that all
references to ekklessia or the ekklessia of Yahshua, or the ekklessia in Yahweh,
means the assembly of Yahweh. Since He is the Yahweh-Elohim of Israel, the born
again community of faith are the people of Yahweh, or the people of Israel. The
people of Israel make up a single flock that hears the Good Shepherd’s voice, and
obeys His commandments (Rev. 22:14).
So we see that Satan knowing this
concept of one flock, attempted to erase the Jewish people by having them join
the manmade "church", in order to pull them out of national Israel,
and turn them into Roman citizens loyal to paganism. The idea being if all Jews
that are saved join a man made institution, they will lose their Jewish
nationality, and within a few generations genocide will in effect have subtly
taken place. (Of course when this plan didn’t work Satan tried the old forced
baptism, and forced conversion method done at the point of a sword!)
The truth of the whole matter is that
the opposite holds true. All peoples, tongues, and tribes are called to join
believing Israel, as the true divinely created, and ordained ekklessia of
Israel. In this divinely sanctioned version of New Covenant Israel, all
paganism, and foreign detestable idols should be left at the door, and not
brought to the altar. In Matthew 16:18, Yahshua tells Keefa (Peter), that the
Heavenly Father had given Keefa divine revelation that Yahshua the Messiah would
build His ekklessia against which the gates of hell would not, and
could not prevail. The word here translated "church" is ekklessia in
the Greek. Yahshua is in essence saying that national Israel’s elders, and
leadership, were vainly trying to rebuilt, and restore Israel by their own
manmade rules, and efforts. Satan continually prevailed against that version of
Israel. Yahshua on the other hand would build His version of the ekklessia
(Israel), and that that Israel would continually overcome all the forces of
Satan, and of darkness. Traditional replacement theology points to Matt.16:18,
as some sort of proof text that Yahshua was about to create, and built something
new called "the church", and furthermore that it would be something
that the Jews because of their unbelief would have to deal with. What hogwash,
and popycock that is! Had He intended to built a church, He would have said so,
don’t you think? Instead He told this Israelite named Keefa (Peter), that
He (Yahshua), would build a successful enough, and strong enough ekklessia of
Israel, that would survive the onslaught of the gates of hell. What a
difference! In Acts 7:38 Stephen the first Israelite martyr (not
"church" martyr, since scripturally speaking "the church"
never existed), confirms this marvelous truth. He states that Moshe Rabainu or
Moses was with the ekklessia on Mt Sinai receiving the Torah. Stephen here
refers to the giving of the Torah to the ekklessia of Israel. In the
King James Version, and others as well, it states that "this is he who was
in the church in the wilderness". Now either Moses went to church at
Mt Sinai, or the word ekklessia means that Moses was with the assembly of Israel
when he was called up to receive the Torah. Stephen the
first New Covenant Israelite martyr (not church martyr), understood the same
thing as Yahshua, and all the other writers of New Covenant scripture. That the
ekklessia that would mushroom into the global Kingdom of Yahweh, was Israel
reborn, rebuilt, reconstructed, and renewed! In none of the aforementioned
verses or anywhere else in the New Covenant for that matter, is there any divine
authority or sanction given for the creation of a separate entity called
"the church", the Gentile church, the Gentile Christian church,
or the non Jewish church, for that matter.
The prophet Jeremiah confirms this
everlasting truth in Jeremiah chapter 31:verses 31-34, where he prophecies that
the New Covenant will be cut with both houses of Israel, in order to
forgive sin, and internalize Torah through the Brit HaLev (circumcision of the
heart). These verses say nothing about the New Covenant being cut with anyone
else, though other scriptures do in fact teach the salvation of the
"Gentile" nations that enter into this NEW
ISRAELITE COVENANT!
Therefore last days ministries that are
for the most part sincere, and working very hard to reconcile "the
church", and the Jews, are wasting their time at best, and are in fact
becoming part of the problem as opposed to part of the solution. This ministry
to "the church", is in itself a defacto false recognition that there
is a separate "Gentile" entity apart from Israel called the church.
HOW CAN YOU, AND I HAVE A MINISTRY OR MINISTER TO AN ENTITY THAT IS TOTALLY
FICTITIOUS? LET’S GET SERIOUS! The only ministry acceptable to the
Heavenly Father is a ministry to the victims of the manmade
ecclesiastical system called "the church", in order to gently rebuke,
reprimand, and correct them unto repentance, by renouncing separate entity
theology, and practice, and by bringing them back into New Covenant Israel,
where everyone is welcome, and where everyone follows Yahshua, and honors His
Torah! That is true biblical teshuvah!
In this New Covenant Israel, the true middle wall of partition is permanently
crushed.
Let me caution those involved in
ministries who in much good will are trying hard to make these two separate
entitles learn how to love, and get along with each other. These two separate
entities with separate loyalties (Jerusalem, and Rome), and separate Sabbaths,
separate Feast days, separate thinking towards the land of Israel, are not
divinely mandated to get along since they represent two different kingdoms,
and two different spirits! One represents the Kingdom Of Light, the other
the kingdom of darkness, and shadows. Cease, and desist from your work of flesh
whereby you lean on your own understanding, or even worse on traditional
understanding of just who Israel is, and is not. It is the Father’s
revealed will, to have one flock with total unity, not two flocks with some
common similarities, and some common areas of ecumenical understanding. Stop!
Cease, and desist!! If you are really sent by Yahweh to the
"church", which is a separate entity without divine sanction, it will
not be to schmooze them into liking the Jews, and supporting your ministry,
rather it will be to call them out of that system, BACK INTO THE COMMONWEALTH
OF ALL ISRAEL, HER MESSIAH, AND HER ETERNAL PRECEPTS! Repent to the Father
for a lack of understanding of your true call. You may have meant well, but what
in fact you have been doing is continuing to nurture separate entity theology,
which is the very oxygen that feeds, and enflames the nefarious fires of
replacement theology, which you claim to loath, and despise. There
is one people of New Covenant Israel called the ekklessia or the Israel of
Yahweh (Galatians 6:16), and it is up to you, and I to became part of the
solution by bringing to an end the claims of another renegade, pagan saturated,
illegal, compromising man-made made system called "the church".
Isn’t
it ironic that my Messianic Jewish brothers who hate replacement theology
the most, and would love to put a final end to its proliferation, are teaching
the very same doctrines that guarantee its survival. By teaching that
the body of Yahshua is made up of Gentile believers known as "the
church", and by Jewish believers known as Messianic Jews or Israel, they
are virtually helping to spread the belief that these two separate mystical, and
mysterious ecclesiastical bodies, become one in Yahshua. How could that be if
one of the entities uses Torah as an instruction manual, and honors Yahweh’s
Feasts, while the other entity burns Torahs, and refers to anything from Torah
as Jewish legalism. Amos 3:3 clearly reminds us "how can two walk together
except they be agreed? You cannot take two entities, and simply name, and claim
unity, while both entities have no plans to adopt a single code of conduct
(Torah), and while most of the time these two entities are too busy trying to
replace, convert, deny or even annihilate the other entity. As long as you
have two brides, and two separate entities called "the Gentile
church", and "the Jews" (Israel), you will continue to have an
ongoing battle royal over the title of Israel, with each staking its claim to be
the real, and the true Israel at the expense of the other, with each side having
its own collection of "proof texts".
Please my brethren. Be honest with
yourselves, and with your own hearts. Your intentions may have been the best,
but all the while you have been trying to create unity between oil, and water,
and have further accelerated the spread of the disease of replacement theology,
that you claim to despise. The time must end immediately for Messianic
Jewish leadership to be threatened by the scriptural truth of the two houses of
Israel, which is in no way, shape or form replacement theology, but rather the
permanent, and lasting solution to it! Only a revelation of who
Ephraim/Israel is today, will allow you to spend your time building, and
rebuilding the Tabernacle Of David. I call heaven, and earth this day to record
my prophetic call to the leaders of Messianic Judaism, of which I am a part, and
who I consider to be my co-laborers, and friends, to recognize their unwilling
proliferation of replacement theology, by withholding Israelite recognition to
non Jewish believers as Ephraim/Israel, who in the most part are
willing to live with Judah, not attempt to replace Judah. Withholding their true
Israelite identity from them is sinful, and is labeled vexation of a brother in
Isaiah 11:13-14! This vexation has fooled Ephraim into looking for his
acceptance in an ecclesiastical field of dreams, that unfortunately is laced
with paganism! When Messianic Jews grant the other House of Israel their
rightful place, Isaiah 11:13 states that Ephraim (saved non Jewish
believers), will feel the love, and acceptance from Judah, and no longer
cause the Jewish people further problems. There it is clearly outlined in Isaiah
11:1-16, and specifically verses 12-13, which are Yahweh’s outline for the end
of the "church" versus "the Jewish" blood bath, and battle!
True two house theology has no room
for replacement theology in it, because it refuses to recognize a false
system called "the church", as separate from Israel. MESSIANIC
NAZARENE YISRAELITES HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY! Messianic Jewish
leaders must see the teaching on the two houses of a single people called Israel
(not two entities), as the permanent final solution to replacement theology.
Continuing refusal to accept the biblical, historic, and Talmudic truth of two
still divided houses, with the House of Ephraim having been turned into
hundreds of millions of Gentiles, as their punishment for paganism, will
result in Messianic Judaism continuing to chase its proverbial tail in futile
attempts to abort replacement theology!
True born again church folks must shed
their orphan Annie religious clothing, and man made designations such as
Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, non denominational, or non
affiliated, and yes even Catholic, and call themselves what scripture calls
them. Returning Israelites, who were lost before Yahshua found,
and saved them. Settling for anything less than the title of Israel, with their
picture restored back into the family album, will only proliferate the venomous
teachings that have been brought about by their blindness to their Israelite
identity. Two house restoration
truth is the cure for denominationalism as well, which is nothing but a
heartfelt expression of born again believers crying out for some sort of
corporate identity, and belonging!
Awake, and arise oh House Of Israel so
long ago outcast, and dispersed, and come out of the "church system"
by returning to your brother Judah as an equal heir at the table of fellowship
in Messiah’s New Covenant Israel!
More, and more Messianic Jewish rabbis
are seeing two house theology as the pure final scriptural, and authoritative
end to the two thousand year old problem of replacement theology. But
unfortunately there are still those who see two house theology (Judah, and
Ephraim), as the cause of replacement theology! Shame on you for
believing the party line birthed in fear, rather than in the faith of Yahweh as
He outlined the plan for Israel’s full, and glorious restoration in our day!
Remember the party line is usually not correct. Remember the party line used to
be that Jews cannot, and will not trust Yahshua. Boy have we seen that myth go
to a deservedly quick grave. In like manner the myth that two house theology is
another form of Christian replacement theology, will, and is already dying a
rapid, and well deserved death. As Bob Dylan once sang: "The
times they are a changin!", and they are changing for the better.
As we know or should understand, error
begets error. Or to put it another way the rejection of truth breeds error. The
teaching of separate entity theology has brought most of Yahshua’s body to
attempt to band-aid this breech of scriptural two house truth, by installing a
new heresy. This new heresy is called the physical, and spiritual Israel theory.
This teaching is a frivolous attempt to explain away the self inflicted results,
and wounds of separate entity theology. This heresy states that the
"church" is spiritual Israel, all the while the Jewish people,
and specifically the Messianic Jews are physical Israel. Why is
this teaching wrong? Because it still leaves us with the unsolvable
problem of two Israel's, and wrongfully portrays Yahweh as a lustful spiritual
adulterer! Furthermore the spiritual versus physical Israel heresy
cannot be accurate, because in order for physical Israel to be acceptable to the
Father they must also become spiritual through the new birth. Also everyone who
claims to be spiritual Israel, in the so called "church", are all
physical beings who really do exist. This popular theory is full of flaws, and
is not the solution we are looking for.
The devil doesn’t really give a hoot
if you call one entity ("the church") spiritual Israel, and the Jews,
physical Israel. As long as you don’t recognize the body
of YAHSHUA AS A SINGLE ENTITY, THAT IS SIMULTANEOUSLY BOTH PHYSICAL, AND
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, IN ONE BLOOD BOUGHT, AND PRECIOUS BODY OF REDEEMED PEOPLE
CALLED ISRAEL!
Therefore any Messianic group or
congregation that truly wants to become part of the final solution to this dual
entity problem, can do so by buying into the heaven sent truth of a single
people called Israel, who are both physically descended from Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, as well as spiritually restored back to that very same people by the
blood of Messiah. If we allow ourselves to return to the clear
dictate of scripture, then we will be honored by Yahweh as part of the solution
to this ongoing problem. Remember! Separate entity, or the "physical versus
spiritual Israel lie", is the very life giving oxygen that fuels the
nefarious consuming flames of replacement theology. THE ONLY SCRIPTURAL WAY
TO END REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS TO REMOVE THE MANMADE "ECCLESIASTICAL CHURCH
SYSTEM, AND CONCEPT", FROM OUR VOCABULARY, TEXTBOOKS, SERMONS, AND THOUGHT!
If we remove one of the two competing
entities both claiming to be Israel, then the battle is over. No
one can replace anyone else because we have finally recognized that Yahweh is
not a polygamist allowing one bride to be Gentiles, or spiritual Israel, and
another to be physical, or the "real Israel". If we come to the true
irrefutable recognition that Yahshua has purchased one entity called Israel, the
ekklessia of the New Covenant, then the jealousy, the warring, the vexation, the
disrespect, the haughty attitudes, and all attempts at establishing either of
the two competing entities as superior or more chosen, will finally, and
thankfully come to an abrupt, and sudden end. Then Judah, and Ephraim may
tussle as brothers in a sibling rivalry, within the family of Israel, as all
natural families do, but that is a far cry from the murder fueled by jealousy,
coming from two separate families, or entities!
If we straighten out our
theology to match up with scripture, we will be a partaker in eliminating
replacement theology, by eliminating the oxygen that feeds it which is separate
entity theology. By
being a forerunner in the restoration of this last days prophetic truth, we will
gain tremendous rewards in heaven. By continuing to proliferate the lie of so
called physical, and spiritual Israel, we play right into the hands of those
who hate us so much, that they have decided to eliminate us, by replacing us
through incorrect doctrine, for which they do not have to do any jail
time!
The preaching of the glorious gospel of
Yahshua, is the method by which, and through which the kingdom is being
restored to all Israel (Acts 1:1-8). The gospel is designed to bring all
nations into a single entity called New Covenant Israel, or the ekklessia
of Yahshua. Verse 6 of Acts:1, tells us that Israel’s restoration was
foremost on the minds of the remaining eleven talmidim at the time of Yahshua's
ascension. He rebuked their desire to know the timing of Israel’s full
restoration, as something that belonged only to the Sovereign Father in heaven,
and then proceeded to give them the formula or the means by which the Kingdom
would be restored through the gospel. Verse 8 of Acts:1, tells us this formula
for building this single entity known as Israel (both simultaneously physical,
and spiritual), will come to pass by first going to the Jews or the House of
Judah found in Jerusalem, and Judea. Then the eleven were told as we all are,
to go to Samaria (Ephraim’s former capital city), which is a direct call from
the Messiah to seek out Ephraim, the other House of Israel! All historians
recognize the Samaritans as having been descended form the Northern ten tribes.
Finally we are to go to the outer most parts of the globe. Why? Because
according to Genesis 48:19, and Isaiah 11:12, this global search via gospel
light, will allow us to find the scattered sheep of Israel, the outcast seed of
Ephraim/Israel, along with the dispersed seed of Jewish/Israel. Together with
the past dispersions of Jewish/Israel, and the obvious outcast status of
Ephraim/Israel, the globe is full of Israelite blood from both houses, thereby
the necessitating of "The Great Commission" of Matthew
28:18-20. If you belong to Yahshua by grace through faith, then "EWE",
must be one of them! Yahweh
designed the worldwide preaching of the gospel to both redeem individuals, all
the while simultaneously restoring Israel corporately. "O the riches, and
wisdom of Almighty Yahweh!"
The only solution then to replacement
theology, physical versus spiritual
Israel theology, and separate entity theology, is the restoration of both houses
of Israel. The House of Judah, Jewish/Israel and the House of Israel,
Ephraim/Israel! (Study Hosea chapter one to find out how Ephraim would turn up
in the last days as Gentiles, and unite with saved Jews, into one single body
with the same set of instructions (Torah), and the same vision). Hosea chapter
one verse 11, reminds us that the day of Jezreal or the 12 tribal re-gathering
of Israel, will take place only through Messiah’s establishment of Israel as a
single entity. Both houses will appoint the same King over them (Yahshua), as
well as appoint the same teaching of King Messiah (Torah), as their guidebook,
and instruction manual. The revelation of this last days truth, and the
restoration of all Israelites from both still divided houses, will cause a cry
of lament to proceed from a reunited Israel, as is beautifully taught in Hosea
2:1. We will see that non Jewish believers, are really as much physical
Israelites as we ourselves are, and our response to our Messianic Nazarene Yisraelite
brothers, and sisters of faith will take on a new reality, as we see them for
who they really are. Not just spiritual brothers or sisters, but flesh, and
blood physical Israelites, as chosen as is Jewish/Israel!
This realization in both houses of
Israel, will give birth to the joyous, and wonderful heartfelt cry of reunion. "O
MY PEOPLE! AMI"! This last days revelation of the restoration of
both houses of Israel, will allow the spiritually discerned to see their
non Jewish brothers in a new light. That light will reveal Ephraim/Israelites
as fellow redeemed physical Israelites. That same light will allow Ephraim
to shed his temporal denominational name tags, and in its place reclaim the
title of Israel that belonged to them before 921BC, without having a compulsion
to replace the Jews. As the scripture declares: "Truly
great is the day of Jezreal" (the re-gathering of that which had been
previously scattered!).
Ephraimites who still hold to
replacement theology are in desperate need of doctrinal healing, and need a true
heaven sent vision of national Israelite unity. Their thinking is sinful, and a
major obstacle, and stumbling block to the ultimate, and glorious reunification
of all Israel!
Where will you stand today?
With the two houses OF ISRAEL, beautifully coming together into
a single flock through Yahshua our Messiah’s life giving blood, or with
the lies of separate entity theology, and the spiritual versus physical Israel
theology, which remain the twin oxygen tanks that allows replacement theology to
survive. The choice is yours! As for me, and my house (Joshua 24:15), we
will serve Yahweh, and His eternal covenant people Israel!
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