Article 20101018
This article is a companion to ‘The Rapture’.
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- Has the bride made herself ready?
- Is she truly dressed in the Righteousness of the Mashiach, Yeshua?
- Can she expect to be ‘Raptured’ out of here any day now?
- What happens if the Salt loses its savour?
- What can we do?
The Apostle Paul’s expectation
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Ephesians 5:25-27
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
The State of the Western Church
This article, indeed this website, is for believers, both Christian and Messianic. But it is not for Christians that are ‘out to lunch’ that have ‘no clue’ as to what is going on here in the Western church, in lukewarm and careless America, Australia and New Zealand etc.
We know the pagan world is on the edge of judgment, so how much more so the House of God
1 Peter 4:17
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”
And we know that before the Lord does something he warns, and warns and warns. If we cannot recognise that we are living in a lukewarm Laodicean Church then we are lukewarm and asleep. So I will not say anymore except it is time to pay the reaper, judgement is at the door, and it will come first to the church.
The Protestant Church has had its ups and downs but there has never been a time when it has become so utterly lawless. Our leaders don’t even know what is up or down anymore. They can no longer discern between good and evil, clean and unclean, holy and profane.
The prosperity preachers, that preach for financial gain are blind guides leading the blind. They shall both fall into a ditch. The judgement shall be cruel to the leaders that feed themselves on the flock. Indeed they shall die in accordance with the Prophecy of Ezekiel 34. And the foolish Laodicean Sheep that follow them shall fall into the same ditch. In the words of Ezekiel 34:16 “I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.”
But thankfully the Good Shepherd will seek out his sheep and appoint new shepherds that shall look after the sheep, this is in the context of the ‘House of Israel‘ returning to their own land, the land of Israel, something which has not happened in 3000 years, something which has in fact never happened. And although the return of the Jews is immensely prophetically important it is not the people that this 24th chapter of Ezekiel is addressed to. The Jews of are from the ‘House of Judah’. The ‘House of Israel’ is NOT the ‘House of Judah’ (the ‘Jews’). This is not replacement theology either. There just happens to be two Houses after the Solomon’s reign. Read 1 Kings chapter 12 if you doubt it. Prophetically they both have divergent destinies until God brings them back together. The House of Israel was to lose its identity and become mixed up among the nations. The Jews, the ‘House of Judah’, would be mixed among the nations but would not lose their identity. Later these two Houses, the ‘House of Israel’ and the ‘House of Judah’, shall be one, under the House of David, the Royal blood line, and under Yeshua. That time is coming, but that time is not now. Now we are awaiting the return of the Lost tribes. Before they return though, God shall destroy the wicked idle Shepherds, the Pastors of the House of Israel that are everywhere in the Church nowadays misleading and mistreating his flock.
It is true that God is doing different things in different ages. He is working out His plan, during this dispensation of Grace since Yeshua died and rose again and told his disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost fell upon them on that wonderful Pentecost in Acts chapter 2.
But although the good Lord is building different parts of His Eternal Kingdom and House in unique ways at different times, the Lord himself does not change. And His promises concerning Israel do not become null and void. And just as He has regathered the ‘House of Judah’, the Jews to their land in accordance with biblical prophecy, He will also do the same with the ten Lost tribes of the ‘House of Israel’, irrespective of whether they know who they are or not. Many Jews were not ready to return to the land of Israel but God moved through World events to push it along in his time. The pogroms came, then World Wars 1 and 2. Some got the message and left for the land willingly, others were forced to leave, others chose America, and many others chose too late. Sadly God has been gathering the Jewish people with wrath poured out (Zephaniah 2). But the same will happen to the lost tribes (Ezekiel 20:34).
Christians read these prophecies and apply them to the Jews when they are in fact directed at the Lost tribes. And there are many of the lost tribes amongst the church! That is a message that just doesn’t seem to get through the thickness of their skin, anymore than obedience to Torah! Sin is Transgression of the Torah.
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
1 John 3:4
In case someone accuses me of getting my dispensations wrong, I say “wake up”, “Sniff the Coffee”. The prophecy in Ezekiel concerns the Shepherds of ‘Israel’. If you read Ezekiel you will see the prophet makes a clear distinction between ‘Israel’ and ‘Judah’ or the ‘House of Israel’ and the ‘House of Judah’, as do other prophets. This prophecy in Ezekiel concerns ‘Israel’!
יחזקאל לד:ב
Ezekiel 34:2
בן־אדם הנבא על־רועי ישׂראל הנבא ואמרת אליהם לרעים כה אמר אדני יהוה הוי רעי־ישׂראל אשׁר היו רעים אותם הלוא הצאן ירעו הרעים׃
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?”
And this is a most cruel irony that those that are of the ‘House of Israel’ are the most blind to their own Israelite identity. Yet now we find some are waking up to their identity. A messianic remnant is beginning to stir, but more about that later. So now, back to the apostate church leaders, the Pastors of the ‘House of Israel’. By the way I am not saying all church leaders, just most of them! These Shepherds or Pastors in Ezekiel 34 are the Pastors in this church age, because many of the leaders of the church in America are from the ‘House of Israel’, the lost ten tribes and don’t even know it.
Their ancestors left Britain and Europe during and after the Protestant reformation. As the lost tribes left Europe, the light went out from Europe. Europe lost it’s salt. That salt went to the ‘New World’. The ancestry of many church Pastors and their congregations in the new world, goes back far further than most suspect. The Protestant Puritans for instance left on the ‘Mayflower’ from Plymouth England; The Amish and the Baptists, the Huguenots and many others from Europe. Europe was not sad to see them leave. They fled that continent for America and the Colonies of the British Commonwealth.
Their ancestry goes back 3000 years to the division of Israel into the ‘House of Israel’ and the ‘House of Judah’. As stated earlier, the ‘House of Judah’ became the Jews but the ‘House of Israel’ lost its identity, language and became mingled amongst the nations in accordance with prophecy. Yet their blood lines have never been diminished because our Ancestral lineage is determined by the father’s line, and his father before him. My blood line, my tribe and race are determined biblically from what tribe or race my father is, not my mother (although it is important to have Godly mothers!). All the genealogies of the bible are masculine. It is important who your mother is of course, but the seed is determined by the Father . The exception is the Seed of the Woman, Yeshua himself, who legally was the son of Joseph, as far as physical ancestry is concerned, but only had DNA from his mother, there being no sexual union between Mary and Joseph to Produce Yeshua. Yeshua, the Seed of the Woman was engendered by the Holy Spirit. And before He was born He was the Son of God, ruling in the Heavens upon the Heavenly throne above all principality and power.
But back to the point, the Churches ignorance of the lost tribes of the ‘House of Israel’, like their breaking of the physical Sabbath, will be the death of many. The Shepherds of the ‘House of Israel’ in America, the leaders of the church that feed themselves on the flock shall shortly be put to death in accordance with Ezekiel 34. This ‘Laodicean’ Church (Revelation 3) will be judged, and those lukewarm will be spewed from the Mouth of the Son of God whose eyes are like a flame of fire.
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
Matthew 5:13
The Decent into Chaos and Unreason
In the shadow of the collapse of Western Civilisation and it’s free fall into paganism and self-absorbed dissipation, we have a church leadership structure that is just another arm of the state and our materialistic society, being ossified, dead and rotten to the core. It is just another tax exempt business. It makes ‘cents’ to be in the religion business.
It doesn’t matter which brand of Protestantism we are looking at, most of the leaders are asleep, self-seeking and unaware of where they are actually going or what is around the corner prophetically. How many of the church leadership know that the next major thing prophetically is a return of the lost tribes? When I make this generalisation I hope that there are exceptions, but those exceptions will be found more and more amongst home fellowships and home schoolers and other groups of often the broken and battered sheep who have been mistreated by these church Pastors and their Laodicean tithe paying goats – that’s if they pay tithes! So if you’re one of the sheep that has been tossed out by the long horns of the false shepherds, be encouraged. Be encouraged because God is getting you out of our increasingly New Age churches that have become soulless money making enterprises. Be encouraged Ye prisoners of hope, God’s lambs who have had a rough time of it.
During this collapse of conscience in the mainline denominations, (including the many Pentecostal flavours of lolly water), we see little sign of repentance amongst the leaders, let alone their docile and obedient pew warmers. So rather than wake up, the collapse is all but complete. We have seen the transformation of our once vibrant Protestant faith into a first degree Harlot more brazen than her Catholic mother, Rome, the mother of Harlots! Actually the Roman church is nothing but the religion of Baal and Diana. Rome in truth is a Daughter of Babylon herself. But now we find the Protestants beginning to suckle at the same breasts as Romulus and Remus, Rome. And Rome is but one of the legs of Iron of Nebuchadnezzar‘s image, guided by the unseen Golden Head Babylon herself. It is Antichrist.
In time we will see the final last-days empire of Iron mixed with miry clay, the ten toes of a global government divided into 10 Kingdoms. But in order to bring this to pass, the old world must be swept away with its nation states. To do this another World War would be handy. And to help a World War to break out, many years of planning must go into destabilising the world. Wars of this scale don’t just happen, they are planned years in advance. And they may come from the minds of an evil elite, but they also come from the hand of God to bring judgment upon the world and a church that has lost its salt.
Edom’s New World Order Banking families and globalist industrialists have been busy. Soon we shall have a global financial meltdown that shall make the collapse of the subprime mortgage market look tame. This is because the banks have been bailed out in a fiscally irresponsible manner. Good money has been thrown after bad money, in effect causing another economic bubble of debt that cannot be repaid, but this time on a much larger scale. Soon we won’t just have banks failing, but entire nation states. And the Church leaders meanwhile are obsessed with gold dust and swinging from the chandeliers on the edge of destruction!
And what do nations with no money and heaps of angry young men do? Why they become draconian dictatorships to control the angry masses of starving, jobless and hopeless peoples. But thankfully they have a solution, put the young men in uniform and put them in the army and send them off to fight the nation next door. They are off fighting a war against Terrorism, a war that never stops. Meanwhile the home country has become an archipelago of suspicion. Neighbour turns in neighbour. They turn to the phone-in lines against terrorism, the Patriotic surveillance society that turns us all into suspects. We have alienated our-selves from God and his word and His commandments. And now we are all suspects and suspecting others of all things alien and suspicious. This KGB like society is not too far away at all now. We have had ten or more years of Real TV ‘Survivor ‘shows and ‘BigBrother’ teaching groups of young people in a communal house or tropical island to make alliances and betray one another until only one survives. We are teaching people to behave like animals and betray one another. And most will do exactly that. Betrayal, betrayal, betrayal.
Without Spot?
So we see the corruption in society and in the church. What about the good news? Has the Bride made herself ready? This is the topic of a whole other article. However it is clear that at some stage she will be. It is clear that this was the intent of Paul by the Holy Spirit, “for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” This is the expectation, this is the hope, and this will be the end. The woman clothed with the Sun, standing on the moon in Revelation chapter 12. The dragon with all his power and anger and cleverness cannot even destroy the woman or her seed. Her son is taken into heaven to rule with a rod of Iron. The one who rules the nations with a Rod of Iron is the Messiah. But not only Him, it is also the overcomers of the Church of Thyatira.
So the bride will make herself ready, even the overcomers of all 7 churches. There will be no Rapture before the bride is ready. But once she is ready, then this mortal will put on immortality according to 1 Corinthians 15:53,54. A nation shall be born in one day, even in a time of travail, midway through the 7 year tribulation. The bride will awaken and be united with her groom according to the Song of Songs. Yes the woman is Israel, with the 12 stars about her head. No this is not the Catholic church, nor any human institution. But it is the mystical body of the Messiah. Yes this is the ‘Israel of God’. Spiritual Israel is believing Israel. And her works of faith are pure and true, tried in the fire of affliction, for she is believing Israel, the Church (Kohellet) of the First born, composed of Jews and Gentiles. Now by the time we get to this event in Revelation chapter 12, the woman is only Israel, both Jews and lost tribes. Then the dragon who cannot kill her or her son, will go after the remnant of her seed, the gentile coverts of the nations, they that keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 12:17
Folks, we are just not in those days yet. Yes we see the Anti-Christ spirit rising. Yes the very spirit of Babylon. Yes we see the world gathered against Israel. We see the spirit of Babylon in the institutions of the world, in the world trading system, in the banks, in the United Nations, in the harlot church of Rome and now in her Protestant daughters as well. But we are not quite there yet. And the Bride has still not made herself ready. Indeed most of the so called Protestant church is not only asleep; they are dead in transgressions and sins! For the church at large doesn’t even know what sin is anymore. For sin is Transgression of the Law! Get it, sin is transgression of the Torah! The first 5 books of the bible, the Law of Moses, the Torah!
So after all the gloom and doom in the church in America and Australia and elsewhere, is there anything good happening? That’s a good question and I’m glad you asked! Yes there is good happening. But even when there is good happening, evil is right by its side.
Messianic Movement
Church leaders continue to follow the money and Church Growth doctrines and Salesmanship rather than discipleship. Yes the organised religious environment of our day deteriorates. But the disorganised one is doing better. As those believers that leave the mainline churches in search of a more truthful bible based reality they look for answers in His word and online. And one phenomenon that cannot be ignored is the move within the church to all things Hebraic that is particularly noticeable on the internet.
It seems the only growth within the church is outside the mainstream, looking for a more lawful grace;
So now enters the glorious Messianic movement, or Messy Maniac Movement.
Suddenly after almost 2000 years of denial there a believers who are discovering the Sabbath and the Festivals, the 7 Feasts of the Lord. And let no one judge you on keeping the Sabbath day as commanded by the Lord. This is one of the Ten Commandments for goodness sakes! Gladly we realize that all the Feasts from Passover to Tabernacles are all about our Saviour. Why did we depart from them? That is a topic for another time. Suffice to say that many who are dissatisfied with the anaemic Sunday School are finding a depth to the word of God through the Sabbath, then the Feasts and finally leading to the Torah, the Law of Moses. And like Jeroboam of old, many in church leadership are worried where this will end up next. Perhaps they worry that soon these Sabbath keepers will be coming to Jerusalem to worship and join themselves to the House of David! Others may embrace it to some extent, having a Passover as a cultural thing, to understand their Jewish neighbours perhaps.
So there is a pervasive move in greater or lesser degree towards the feasts of Leviticus 23 which not only remember the deliverance from Egypt but also are prophetic of Yeshua’s first and second coming! And with it a search for real biblical depth, the meat of the Word, especially starting to look at those difficult to digest books of the bible, such as Leviticus!
For others it may be just an excuse to blow off steam and blow a trumpet and don on a Kippah. And this is where the unpleasantness that I have seen firsthand enters in with some Messianics, in fact far too many. It seems that people are not only interested in the Sabbath day and the Feasts and the Torah, but far too many want to adopt the Pharisaic pride of the Pharisees. They put on a Prayer shawl, called a ‘Tallit’, and all of a sudden they are ‘Star bellied Sneatches’, better than the rest. I am not saying that everyone that wears these things has this attitude, but there seems to be a huge ego boost that comes into people, especially men when they put on their fancy stuff. Like a woman with too much makeup they overdo it. Moses was first of all a selfless lover of God and exceedingly humble.
Are those that claim to follow the Torah, anything like Moses? Moses was full of meekness but many alpha male messianics are just full of it. It would be better that they had not discovered the Torah or the Feasts, because now they are spiritually in a worse place. It is better that we hang ourselves than live in haughty pride. If all we want is to be the big Rabbi then surely we are but children. Interestingly Yeshua said call no man Rabbi, that’s good enough for me.
But some want to see themselves as a branch of Rabbinical Judaism, which is full of contradictions to the Torah and in many ways is in essense similar to Catholicism. They both place the authority of men above that of scripture and they both hold to traditions that nullify the Torah. So in some ways Rabbinical Judaism is not only AntiChrist, it is against the Torah, it is Cathoicism under another name. A different name but the same beast. They both wear Kippahs by the way! Personally I don’t want to be a Want-to-be Rabbi. I just want to know Yeshua. I want my life to be hid with Messiah in God.
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:3
So as with any move of God’s spirit there is clean and unclean, both being dragged ashore by the net at the same time. Any move of God has it’s shadow. There is a good tree with good and humble fruit. And there is another tree that has the knowledge, but no fruit, but instead pride and malice and strife! And that is why the Messianic movement is a mixture too. It is may be the shape of things to come but it may not be the substance. It may be a new wine skin, but it isn’t the new wine. It is a mixed bag of grace filled Torah obedience to the Messiah and proud Judaizing fakery and kippa wearing quackery. And there are many that leave Yeshua altogether, denying his name and thus bringing upon themselves swift destruction. Yet something is indeed happening, there can be no doubt, something that the church of the firstborn has not seen before. There is a stirring in people, a yearning, deep calling unto deep. Someone is being called home.
Even if not messianic there are some amongst the evangelicals that are looking for a more God centred and lawful form of grace, a grace that is more firmly rooted in the word of God, and one that is not turned into license or greasy grace. And there is a strong movement to House churches and out of the system.
A Sleeper is awakening. Ephraim come home. What is happening is the lost tribes are beginning to awaken. And this pace will quicken as judgement comes to the world and America, Britain, Australia and wherever the lost tribes dwell. There will be no rapture because the bride is not ready, but there will be a return to the land of Israel, after World War 3 and well before the final tribulation.
When we return to the Father in spirit and in truth we will return to the promised land spiritually. But when we take the Torah seriously, when we bow the knee to our king according to His commandments, then we will return the land physically. (We will look at the promise in Deuteronomy 30 regarding this shortly).
Even if we are not ready, God has a timetable and it is coming on the wings of the wind…
צפניה ב:א-ג
Zephaniah 2:1-3
1 התקושׁשׁו וקושׁו הגוי לא נכסף׃ 2 בטרם לדת חק כמץ עבר יום בטרם לא־יבוא עליכם חרון אף־יהוה בטרם לא־יבוא עליכם יום אף־יהוה׃ 3 בקשׁו את־יהוה כל־ענוי הארץ אשׁר משׁפטו פעלו בקשׁו־צדק בקשׁו ענוה אולי תסתרו ביום אף־יהוה׃
“Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.”
So Israel is being gathered together before the tribulation. Over the last one hundred years the Jews have been gathering into the land of Israel, now the pace will quicken as the Lost tribes return. They will return from a destroyed America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and all the places they are found, from shattered lives and ruined families. It is coming. It is right at the door. So we should be like Moses and seek meekness, it may be that we will be hidden in the Messiah in God. Indeed the Torah declares this amazing promise;
דברים ל:א-ה
Deuteronomy 30:1-5
1 והיה כי־יבאו עליך כל־הדברים האלה הברכה והקללה אשׁר נתתי לפניך והשׁבת אל־לבבך בכל־הגוים אשׁר הדיחך יהוה אלהיך שׁמה׃ 2 ושׁבת עד־יהוה אלהיך ושׁמעת בקלו ככל אשׁר־אנכי מצוך היום אתה ובניך בכל־לבבך ובכל־נפשׁך׃ 3 ושׁב יהוה אלהיך את־שׁבותך ורחמך ושׁב וקבצך מכל־העמים אשׁר הפיצך יהוה אלהיך שׁמה׃ 4 אם־יהיה נדחך בקצה השׁמים משׁם יקבצך יהוה אלהיך ומשׁם יקחך׃ 5 והביאך יהוה אלהיך אל־הארץ אשׁר־ירשׁו אבתיך וירשׁתה והיטבך והרבך מאבתיך׃
“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.”
So it’s time to cleanse our ways. The clock is ticking even in this ‘Church Age’! Yahweh has a people, a people named Israel. And he shall take up a remnant of his people from amongst the nations and they shall come back to their own land. And the key to our survival and return is a Torah based obedience to our king Yeshua.
Make yourself Ready
The Bride must make herself ready! Just like Queen Esther. Judgement is coming to the church in the west. God will bring out his remnant from America, Australia and wherever the 10 Lost tribes are scattered and he will judge those that swear falsely by His name. And don’t be surprised that God will bring the Lost ten tribes of the ‘House of Israel’ out of the North Country even during this ‘Church Age’. We may be spiritual, but we are also flesh and blood, and the bloodlines of the lost tribes do not disappear and neither do the promises of God. And the Prophetic word shall be fulfilled concerning the ‘House of Israel’, even before the eyes of all the world, before the day of the Lord. Well before the 7 year tribulation. A third world war is coming. The worst war the world has ever seen since Adam. But it is not the tribulation, it is the return of the Lost tribes. And it’s about time the believers in the body of Messiah woke up to it!
Indeed He has returned much of the ‘House of Judah’, the Jews to the Land of Israel over the last one hundred years, even during World War 1 and 2. Now he will return the ‘House of Israel’, even through judgement of another massive upheaval, World War 3! Notice how these world upheavals concern Israel! Yeshua said in Matthew 24 that the signs of the end of the age, the birth pangs of Messiah would be wars and rumours of wars, Nation against nation Kingdom against Kingdom, that is, World War! So World War 3 is coming and the Lost tribes are coming home from the land of the North. Could this be North America? The clock is ticking and we shall soon find out if we live to tell our story.
ירמיהו כג:ז-ח
Jeremiah 23:7-8
7 לכן הנה־ימים באים נאם־יהוה ולא־יאמרו עוד חי־יהוה אשׁר העלה את־בני ישׂראל מארץ מצרים׃ 8 כי אם־חי־יהוה אשׁר העלה ואשׁר הביא את־זרע בית ישׂראל מארץ צפונה ומכל הארצות אשׁר הדחתים שׁם וישׁבו על־אדמתם׃
“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the ‘House of Israel’ out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.”
We like Esther, need to purify ourselves to meet the king, we need to deal with our sins and run the race with patience, looking to Yeshua;
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2
We may not be a spotless bride ready to be lifted into heaven, but if we hear the voice of God speaking and start cleansing our ways, we may find a way through the carnage and into the promised land of Israel. And while God is straightening out his lost tribe remnant here, he will bring the Jewish people in the land of Israel to the Messiah.
ירמיהו כג:ו
Jeremiah 23:6
6 בימיו תושׁע יהודה וישׂראל ישׁכן לבטח וזה־שׁמו אשׁר־יקראו יהוה צדקנו׃
“In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
Sometimes the hard times that are against us are there to teach us, if we will listen. And the Father, Yahweh says of His Son who bears his Name, “this is My Son with whom I am well pleased, listen to Him.” So let us listen to Him and let us cleanse our hands. And we may indeed live to see great blessings. Spiritual Blessings in the Heavens and here on Earth a place of shelter from the storm, a land flowing with milk and honey.
At some stage after the lost tribes return there will be the Gog Magog war and later the Anti-Christ, but there are usually times of blessings between major world wars, and eventually the bride will make herself ready, even if it is during the time of Jacob’s trouble. Yeshua said,
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
So we need to be overcomers. And we need to be cleaning up our act with the power of the Holy Spirit. So here is a reminder again from the Apostle Paul;
Without Spot
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
Ephesians 5:25-27
Ezekiel 34 – House of Israel is Judged and Remnant regathered
There are many prophecies about the return of the lost tribes, let’s just have a look at just one of them, let’s read Ezekiel 34. And let us read it with new eyes. For even during this ‘Church Age’ there are Jews, those from the ‘House of Judah’, principally from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin plus some Levites and Cohens (Priests from the same tribe, Levi). And many of them have returned to the land of Israel in accordance with biblical prophecy. The fact that God has not forgotten his promises for Israel are alluded to in Romans 11 and elsewhere in the New Testament. But we are all the poorer if we are not familiar with the prophecies in the Old Testament scriptures. And those same Old Testament prophets that detail Judah’s return into the land first, also speak of the return of the lost tribes from the ‘House of Israel’, even during this ‘Church Age’.
So the lost tribes still exist, even the ‘House of Israel’ scattered and ignorant as to their ancestry. I myself trace my ancestors back to Scotland. But amongst the scots were some Celts (not all) who were of the seed of Israel. They had migrated from Assyria and into the area that the Apostle Paul preached in Turkey, Greece and Rome. They passed through Europe and into Britain too. Then after the Protestant Reformation, many came to North America.
The United States of America is a land filled with many peoples, but the lost tribes are there in significant numbers and are noticeable for their generations’ long history of Protestant faith in Yeshua and kindness to the Jewish people in the State of Israel today. It seems that even the Muslims know who we are to some extent because they call the Jewish state, Little Satan, and America, Great Satan. Or reversing the language, the Little Satan being the stick of the ‘House of Judah’ (2 tribes plus Levites) and the lost tribes scattered in parts of America, the Great Satan, that is, the lost tribes of the ‘House of Israel’, (10 tribes plus some Levites). By the way I am not endorsing the Muslims calling us Satan! But I am saying that the enemy knows who his enemy is! Didn’t Ishmael make fun of Isaac and call him names? Some things never change!
Again I am not saying that they are only in these countries. And I am not saying all Americans are from the ‘House of Israel’ are in America, far from it! But they are amongst them and some are beginning to wake up.
So let’s read about what God says about the shepherds of the ‘House of Israel’ whom God shall judge. And let’s read about how He will bring back the remnant of his Sheep from the lands they currently live in and bring them back into a much enlarged nation of Israel, a nation that shall be composed of Jews and Lost Tribes Israelites.
Ezekiel 34:1-31
1 ויהי דבר־יהוה אלי לאמר׃
2 בן־אדם הנבא על־רועי ישׂראל הנבא ואמרת אליהם לרעים כה אמר אדני יהוה הוי רעי־ישׂראל אשׁר היו רעים אותם הלוא הצאן ירעו הרעים׃
3 את־החלב תאכלו ואת־הצמר תלבשׁו הבריאה תזבחו הצאן לא תרעו׃
4 את־הנחלות לא חזקתם ואת־החולה לא־רפאתם ולנשׁברת לא חבשׁתם ואת־הנדחת לא השׁבתם ואת־האבדת לא בקשׁתם ובחזקה רדיתם אתם ובפרך׃
5 ותפוצינה מבלי רעה ותהיינה לאכלה לכל־חית השׂדה ותפוצינה׃
6 ישׁגו צאני בכל־ההרים ועל כל־גבעה רמה ועל כל־פני הארץ נפצו צאני ואין דורשׁ ואין מבקשׁ׃
7 לכן רעים שׁמעו את־דבר יהוה׃
8 חי־אני נאם אדני יהוה אם־לא יען היות־צאני לבז ותהיינה צאני לאכלה לכל־חית השׂדה מאין רעה ולא־דרשׁו רעי את־צאני וירעו הרעים אותם ואת־צאני לא רעו׃
9 לכן הרעים שׁמעו דבר־יהוה׃
10 כה־אמר אדני יהוה הנני אל־הרעים ודרשׁתי את־צאני מידם והשׁבתים מרעות צאן ולא־ירעו עוד הרעים אותם והצלתי צאני מפיהם ולא־תהיין להם לאכלה׃11 כי כה אמר אדני יהוה הנני־אני ודרשׁתי את־צאני ובקרתים׃
12 כבקרת רעה עדרו ביום־היותו בתוך־צאנו נפרשׁות כן אבקר את־צאני והצלתי אתהם מכל־המקומת אשׁר נפצו שׁם ביום ענן וערפל׃
13 והוצאתים מן־העמים וקבצתיםמן־הארצות והביאתים אל־אדמתם ורעיתים אל־הרי ישׂראל באפיקים ובכל מושׁבי הארץ׃
14 במרעה־טוב ארעה אתם ובהרי מרום־ישׂראל יהיה נוהם שׁם תרבצנה בנוה טוב ומרעה שׁמן תרעינה אל־הרי ישׂראל׃
15 אני ארעה צאני ואני ארביצם נאם אדני יהוה׃
16 את־האבדת אבקשׁ ואת־הנדחת אשׁיב ולנשׁברת אחבשׁ ואת־החולה אחזק ואת־השׁמנה ואת־החזקה אשׁמיד ארענה במשׁפט׃
17 ואתנה צאני כה אמר אדני יהוה הנני שׁפט בין־שׂה לשׂה לאילים ולעתודים׃
18 המעט מכם המרעה הטוב תרעו ויתר מרעיכם תרמסו ברגליכם ומשׁקע־מים תשׁתו ואת הנותרים ברגליכם תרפשׂון׃
19 וצאני מרמס רגליכם תרעינה ומרפשׂ רגליכם תשׁתינה׃
20 לכן כה אמר אדני יהוה אליהם הנני־אני ושׁפטתי בין־שׂה בריה ובין שׂה רזה׃
21 יען בצד ובכתף תהדפו ובקרניכם תנגחו כל־הנחלות עד אשׁר הפיצותם אותנה אל־החוצה׃
22 והושׁעתי לצאני ולא־תהיינה עוד לבז
ושׁפטתי בין שׂה לשׂה׃23 והקמתי עליהם רעה אחד ורעה אתהן את עבדי דויד הוא ירעה אתם והוא־יהיה להן לרעה׃
24 ואני יהוה אהיה להם לאלהים ועבדי דוד נשׂיא בתוכם אני יהוה דברתי׃
25 וכרתי להם ברית שׁלום והשׁבתי חיה־רעה מן־הארץ וישׁבו במדבר לבטח וישׁנו ביערים׃
26 ונתתי אותם וסביבות גבעתי ברכה והורדתי הגשׁם בעתו גשׁמי ברכה יהיו׃
27 ונתן עץ השׂדה את־פריו והארץ תתן יבולה והיו על־אדמתם לבטח וידעו כי־אני יהוה בשׁברי את־מטות עלם והצלתים מיד העבדים בהם׃
28 ולא־יהיו עוד בז לגוים וחית הארץ לא תאכלם וישׁבו לבטח ואין מחריד׃
29 והקמתי להם מטע לשׁם ולא־יהיו עוד אספי רעב בארץ ולא־ישׂאו עוד כלמת הגוים׃
30 וידעו כי אני יהוה אלהיהם אתם והמה עמי בית ישׂראל נאם אדני יהוה׃
31 ואתן צאני צאן מרעיתי אדם אתם אני אלהיכם נאם אדני יהוה׃1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
Pastors on Notice!
So the Prophet Ezekiel has put you on notice. Are you listening? If you are a leader of the ‘House of Israel’, the answer is probably not. But if you are one of Messiah’s little lambs, the answer may indeed be yes! If so be encouraged, for the Good Shepherd laid His life down for His sheep. And the same one that is a consuming fire is also full of compassion if we repent.
Repenting is not just saying sorry and crying crocodile tears. It is not just giving our heart to Jesus. That is the beginning of a journey of faith (and hard knocks too!) Repenting is turning towards God and keeping His commandments. It is listening to His word and doing it. It is obeying His still small voice. It is a life hid with the Messiah in God, a heart of faith and love. And it is someone that has the Law of the Lord being written on their hearts. That is to say, they like king David would say “I love thy Law O God”. They love it because as Paul says, the Law is Spiritual.
They do not use the Law, the Torah to earn their salvation, no the Torah cannot save. But the Torah of Moses can lead us to the Living Torah, the word of God, the bread of life, from the House of Bread, Bethlehem, even Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of God. No those that are Yeshua’s obey the Law of Moses because they are born of God and the Spirit of truth leads them to the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, Yeshua, the Son of Man and Son of God. They obey him in and through love, and that love is expressed in a love for his word and Torah. The Spirit of God leads them to do the works of God that the Law commends.
And if we are children of God we will be led by the Spirit of God. And there is freedom in that. The Spirit of God does not lead to Lawlessness, that is Torahlessness! It leads to liberty because the Torah is the Law of Liberty. The laws of the Pharisees are a burden but the Law of the Lord converts the soul (Psalm 19:7). It brings us to the Messiah, and afterwards it sanctifies us. Praise be to Yahweh who sanctifies us through his commandments. (Not those ‘additions’ to the Torah via the laws of the Pharisees, or the ‘omissions’ of the Torah through the Edicts of the Catholics!). And it seems that unlike the early more lawful Protestants, the Protestants of today have so abused grace as to nullify all of God’s commandments! So the soul that sins, it shall die! Let us remember his word, enter into His rest, keep the Sabbath day in loving obedience and submission as a bride to her groom, Messiah Yeshua.
Let us keep the feast, not with malice but in love. Let us enter into his rest and keep the Sabbath on the day of rest, the seventh day. And as God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt and said that the Sabbath was a sign between Him and Israel, so must it be from those who will return after the wrath poured out of world war 3 including the judgment of the wicked shepherds of the ‘House of Israel’.
שׁמות לא:יב-יז
12 ויאמר יהוה אל־משׁה לאמר׃ 13 ואתה דבר אל־בני ישׂראל לאמר אך את־שׁבתתי תשׁמרו כי אות הוא ביני וביניכם לדרתיכם לדעת כי אני יהוה מקדשׁכם׃ 14 ושׁמרתם את־השׁבת כי קדשׁ הוא לכם מחלליה מות יומת כי כל־העשׂה בה מלאכה ונכרתה הנפשׁ ההוא מקרב עמיה׃ 15 שׁשׁת ימים יעשׂה מלאכה וביום השׁביעי שׁבת שׁבתון קדשׁ ליהוה כל־העשׂה מלאכה ביום השׁבת מות יומת׃ 16 ושׁמרו בני־ישׂראל את־השׁבת לעשׂות את־השׁבת לדרתם ברית עולם׃ 17 ביני ובין בני ישׂראל אות הוא לעלם כי־שׁשׁת ימים עשׂה יהוה את־השׁמים ואת־הארץ וביום השׁביעי שׁבת וינפשׁ׃12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 31:12-17
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
It will soon be time to pack your bags, it’s not the rapture just yet, the bride has not made herself ready, but she can start listening! We may have spots, but let us clean up our acts, in the love and fear of God. We may not get translated to heaven out of trouble but we may be delivered through it.
We will soon go home to the land of Israel after world war 3 (wrath poured out) before the great and terrible day of the Lord (before the 7 year tribulation and time of Jacobs trouble).
