Are Gentile Christians Part of the Lost Tribes of Israel?

It's time for another edition of fighting for the faith. Tuesday July 2nd 2013. Now today's episode is technically not a light episode we're gonna be covering a pretty complicated thing. Regarding the Hebrew roots movement, but that's the only thing we're gonna do today.

Thank you for tuning in you're listening to fighting for the faith. My name is Chris Roseboro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. And this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical discernment the goal of which.

Help you to think biblically. Help you to think critically. Help you compare what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God now. What are the dangers that is out there? In you know the greater religious landscape if you would.

Kind of under the greater umbrella of religions that somehow identify with Jesus or Yeshua the Messiah is. Well the danger is that there are groups that are cultic and that is is that what I mean by that is is that they Although they use the names Jesus and you know and and the Word of God and things like that what they mean by those words are different.

Let me give you an example from a real cult that you should be familiar with and that is Mormonism. Mormonism. Although they claim to be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the way the important word in that Title is the word the they claim to be the Church of Jesus Christ not a Church of Jesus Christ.

The definite article is important there, and they'll say hey, we believe in Jesus worse. We believe that we're saved by grace after everything we can do and you said what does that mean? And then when you find out ways well, who is Jesus and you ask him who is he and they'll say well Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer born to our father Elohim on you know Went to one of his many plural wives Near starbase Kolob, and you're thinking what on earth is that and always and he's a half He's the spirit brother of Lucifer do.

You realize you're not dealing with the same Jesus so one of the dangers of cults is that they hijack Christian terminology? Empty out the biblical meanings of those texts and pour in other meanings so that what happens is there's a semantic Hurdle that you got across in order to be able to communicate with them.

Well similar thing is happening with the Hebrew roots movement although they talk about Yeshua, which is the Hebrew word? Jesus's name and they talk about the Messiah and things like that. They've got a very interesting Set of beliefs and The more you peel the onion here the more there are problems.

Now the reason why it's a danger is because There's so much of what's happening in the visible Church Is so abominable and what I mean by that is just rank false teaching a shallow teaching especially in many of the seeker driven churches or churches that evangelical churches that strive to be like Saddleback or Willow Creek or churches like that what happens is is that people attend those Churches for a couple years and they're no wiser as to what the Bible teaches in fact they may even be confused more as to what the Bible teaches because There no at no time in there in the preaching that occurs on the stages at these seeker driven churches is their in-depth Exegetical preaching instead it's you know, you know five verses ripped out of context.

It's like the Bible stripped mine for life principles that you can apply To you know make your sex life better to improve your finances to find your purpose to get better behaved children. You know stuff like that.

And as a result of it, these are people who don't have any in-depth Understanding of what the Bible says and really teaches and may actually desire For some depth and for some meat and so they're hunting and they're looking around and they might come across.

You know somebody who's been exposed to the Hebrew roots movement who say hi we'll tell you all about the Old Testament and how you can really we're gonna give you the secret to really unpacking what the Bible's really about and Next thing, you know, these people are keeping kosher laws.

They're. They're claiming to be Torah observant. They're wearing tzitzit. They're they're celebrating the Jewish Holidays and because they these folks claim that Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays and you know.

If you celebrate Easter, you're worshiping the goddess Ashtoreth and and by the way, historically, that's not true. I'll have to devote some time in the future here at fighting for the faith to unpacking that that's actually not true at all.

It's really bad history and it's it can't be backed up. If you follow me on Facebook and Twitter, then you saw yesterday I sent out link to links to articles that just completely debunked those claims.

But the idea here is this is that these guys are coming around saying oh, you know what the problem is with Christianity. Yeah, it's just steeped in rank paganism and and to some degree they're right.

And you know, but what they're pointing to is like not even the thing that be pointing at. And so they're gonna say, you know. But we've got the truth and you want to get the inside skinny. You've been you know, those churches are agents of the devil and you want to get the inside skinny well, then you've got to learn how to become Torah observant and and get back to the Hebrew roots of Christianity and all this is done in the name of recovering first century Christianity and.

And well, it's bad theology a misreading of Scripture and ultimately puts you back under the law and bondage in a way that. If you're not really doing this, you're not really a Christian and they might even eschew the word Christian.

They you know, they might call themselves Christians. It might use different terms altogether, but the Hebrew roots movement when you really delve deep into it. There are some major problems. And so what we're gonna do on today's episode of fighting for the faith is we're gonna actually do a an in-depth sermon review if you would of the kind of the entry video.

For those you know, you think you know think of it this way is that you know when you think about first steps. How does somebody get hooked into something like the Hebrew roots movement? The answer is well in the Hebrew roots movement.

There is one particular message Delivered by Jim Staley of passion for the truth ministries out of st. Louis. He he's got this video called identity crisis and many people who've gone into the Hebrew Roots movement and come out of it point to this video or similar teachings as to kind of the you know.

This this is the door into the Hebrew roots movement and you know and a couple of people I've Corresponded with via email said if somebody had debunked this and shown that this isn't Biblical and what this guy's doing is playing fast and loose with words and biblical text I would have never you know gone into the Hebrew roots movement, but thank God I'm out of it.

This is you know an email I received from somebody yesterday, so Here's the idea. What we're gonna do is we're going to we're gonna do a in-depth Sermon review today. It's a long sermon. It's it's over an hour long but The idea here is that this video and this teaching, okay It's not just this video but this teaching in particular the way it's presented Oftentimes is the doorway in to the Hebrew roots movement.

And if you would take the time to listen with biblical discernment you would see the problems Immediately, but the idea here is is that Jim Staley? He's a nice-looking kid. He's a sincere guy. He speaks with passion and he speaks like he knows what he's talking about.

And so I mean, you know Who can fault him? Well, I'm gonna fault him because By the time you listen to the end of this thing and I'm gonna ask that you take the time to listen to the whole. Because it's not until the last part of this this message that the false gospel of the Hebrew roots movement Makes its appearance.

It doesn't appear early on it appears almost at the very end and what I warned you about yesterday the Hebrew roots movement Conflates takes the Old Testament covenants and conflates them into one Continuous covenant that's still in effect.

So if you haven't listened to yesterday's episode of fighting for the faith, that would be the July 1st 2013 episode of fighting for the faith if you haven't listened to the first hour on that especially the portion that I did with Michael Horton's lecture on the covenants as well as my reading and teaching on The book of Hebrews about how Christians are under a new covenant, it's not one continuous covenant.

They're the Christians are under a new covenant. You haven't listened to that you need to go back and you need to listen to that first because I want you to have the right teaching in your brain and Before we get into this because let's just put it this way on the subtlety meter.

You know a date hard to identify Jim Staley's false teaching here is Really nuanced in certain places and as a result of it if you don't know the truth You're not gonna you're not gonna quite have the same.

Yeah, let's just say you're not gonna be able to spot the problem when it comes up, but don't worry I'll point it out to you. When we get to it, so we're gonna dive into the program proper I should warn you that we will take one break today during the program I'm not sure where but I'll pause it for you to pay some bills partway through the program today.

Yet as well as this unfolds. We won't have to we'll only have one and Just make yourself comfortable. You might want to take some notes. But like I said, this is the entry video into the Hebrew roots movement and the basic premises kind of the first basic two basic Premises of the Hebrew roots movement number one all of the churches that call themselves Christians have succumbed to paganism.

Although you won't hear that theme Strongly emphasized it'll be emphasized. You'll hear it a couple of times in this in this lecture, but the second one is this idea that Christians who've Who you know for lack of a better way of putting it have been Gentiles?

What they are in reality are the reason why they're responding to the gospel is because they are part of the lost ten tribes of Israel. Yeah, you heard that right the literally what Jim Staley is teaching is is that the reason why people who are not Jewish? Come to Christianity is because they are being drawn back into Covenant.

Because they are in fact Part of the lost ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom. Yep, that's exactly what you're gonna hear today and listen carefully along the way. You might notice that he has some very interesting ways in which he talks about Jesus it's subtle its nuance but many in the Hebrew roots movement openly deny the doctrine of the Trinity, which means they deny that Jesus Christ is Yahweh that he's God in human flesh instead.

They'll say they'll refer to him as well. Jesus or Yeshua is God's divine word. That's the way they'll talk about him. But they won't say he's God in human flesh and so I think it's interesting to watch how Jim Staley kind of does some Tap-dancing when it comes to some of the things that he brings up and I'll point those out along the way and it's important to note if you're listening to this program and You're thinking well, what would you know about Hebrew?

What do you know about? Yeah. Well, let's just put it this way I'll say it on the movie in a vreet Vani met a better vreet. That means I understand and I speak Hebrew. Okay, so I'm actually well versed in Hebrew my degree 20 years ago is in religious studies in biblical languages.

Let's just say I'm familiar with Hebrew. So with that we're gonna dive into the program proper. I do not have any Hebrew roots update music. I was tempted to pick Hava and the glee Hava Nagila. But I thought that that could be misconstrued and since somebody would accuse me of being anti-semitic when I'm like the last thing.

From being anti-semitic. I have a deep and profound respect for Hebrew culture Theology and other things. It's something that I've studied for years. And so with that we're gonna dive into the program proper.

Here is Jim Staley's Lecture entitled identity crisis. This is the one of the doorway teachings into the Hebrew roots movement. Here we go. All right.

Well, it is good. I am glad to be here this evening and I am excited about this topic that I'm going to be talking about tonight how many have gone through their life and you can pinpoint in your life a Moment a defining moment where your life changed.

You can absolutely remember the time the day you can smell the fragrance in the air, you know what you were wearing You know who you were talking to but at that moment Your life changed and you can look back how many have had those moments in your life where you remember that?

Can I suggest to you that if you've never heard what I'm getting ready to tell you this evening what I'm getting ready to to Put in your lap if you have never heard a message on identity crisis this moment Could be the defining moment that will change your life.

Let me let me put this in front of you this evening. This was my defining moment. This was the moment that Jim Staley's life changed when I began to find out who I am.

Okay. Now this is important. What he's he's he's not speaking in hyperbole here. You interview and just and talk with people in the Hebrew roots movement. They oftentimes will point you to this teaching not this particular video.

But this particular teaching, you know, it's about finding about out who you are. You according to the Hebrew roots movement if you are somebody who are is part of the goyim. That would be Gentiles. And you are believing in the Messiah.

Yeah, more than likely you are one of the people who are part of the lost ten tribes of Israel. I spoiler alert, but that's what he's gonna be building up to here.

So it's important that you see that this is what he's building up to. How many recognize the 77 of all college students that that claim the name of the Messiah. 77 by the end of their freshman year in college deny the Messiah.

I Got to talk to you one of the head Executives here in st. Louis of campus crusade for Christ. You see this Jim. It's far worse than that 77 you're exactly right. 70 some odd percent deny the Messiah by their end of their first year in freshman.

But what's worse than that is of the remaining 23 95 of the remaining Christians cannot tell you for sure If they died that they would literally spend eternal life with the father.

And so now he begins by laying out what is you know? Many of us know are the major problems in the visible church today, which by the way I think there's a sneaking suspicion running around in my head that we're dealing with a An apostasy or a great or the great one and not sure I couldn't tell you for sure because I am no Eschatological expert but what we're seeing here is a major falling away and rebellion within the visible church.

Yeah, the reason for that Well, God hasn't exactly explained. Now has he.

Folks that remains. Very few of our young people the next generation what they call generation X and generation Y that don't even know. Not just their Messiah, but what their Bible says about their own salvation.

How many recognize that teen pregnancy is is off the charts in the church? How many recognize the crime among young people in the church is up. How many realize over the last 30 years and excuse me 50 Years in church history.

I'm quoting all this from Barna group, by the way nation's leading Christian polling agency. That the majority of excuse me over the last 50 years for the first time in Christian history of last 50 years church attendance is Going through the floor.

People are leaving and abandoning churches left and right.

This is true. Why is that. Because they're not preaching the gospel.

Does it make sense to you? If people are leaving the church left and right and our governmental system is getting worse. Does anybody see a proper parallel? Yes, I think the two are directly related. There's something wrong.

And so what I want to propose to you in this message this evening is that we have got to find what the problem Is. But before we do let me ask you this because some of you feel like this.

Raise your hand now. The slide shows a stop sign with a bunch of signs underneath it. One says the don't turn left don't turn right don't turn back Don't go forward. So it's very confusing.

Now here's what I want everybody to do. I want you to everybody breathe in real deep. Now breathe out. You're gonna need all the oxygen that you're gonna get for this weekend because at the end of this weekend You're not gonna feel like this.

You're gonna feel like this and now rather than a stop sign.

It's a bunch of signs pointing in all kinds of different direction and it looks like the Language that it's written in is Japanese, you know, this may have been you know, the photograph taken in downtown, Tokyo.

You're not only gonna be able to read the signs and you can't you're not sure exactly which way to go. You're gonna know where the signs are, but now you're not gonna be able to read them. And our job is not to confuse you by any stretch of the imagination but we get constant emails and feedback from our conferences as we do these around the country of information overload.

So you're laughing now because some of you have not been to our conference. But wait till the end of the weekend when you feel like this, but I can assure you here is where everything begins. How many recognize that you the only way to know how to get from point A to point B is to read a map?

How many are old enough to know what a map is? Okay, cuz my generation we've never seen one okay, I'm the older X generation by Y generation below me. They don't even know what a paper map is. It's GPS right and maps talk to you these days.

Can you believe that? I can't stand it. I should turn her off because she always tells me to go in circles make a left you turn. I just made it you turn so by the end of this weekend. We want you to know to we want to encourage you to do one thing.

Look up at the signs because they're on their way. And if you would just open your mind this weekend, and especially during this message I promise you the Holy Spirit will begin to move in your heart and begin to Recalibrate the language on the sign because one of them might just say one way and all your life.

You thought it meant to go the other way. Okay. So bear with me as we walk through this because some of you are gonna be astounded and even shocked. Maybe even what some of the feedback we get is blown away at this message.

And I want to say off about this is not my message this comes right out of the scriptures. So if you can agree with me that most of you are in here because you want to go deeper into the word. Then we have come to a place where we recognize that we are in a crisis.

We are in a crisis and because we're in a crisis We need to find out why we're in a crisis. Discover what that brought us to the crisis and then find a way to get out of the crisis. So this message is entitled identity crisis.

Who am I? How many understand that once you know who you are and what you were created to do and your true purpose in life? Then and only then can you truly serve your creator. Do you realize that the the most popular book that was ever sold so you can't serve your creator to you know your purpose?

So somewhere rattling around in Jim Staley's theology is Rick Warren's purpose-driven life.

Book in the history of the world. Outside of the Bible was the purpose-driven life with 38 million copies. That is the saddest statistic that has ever been put on the brand of Christianity. Because that means 38 million people don't know what their purpose is.

They don't know who they are and they don't know where they're going.

Wow. Salvation isn't about finding your purpose. This is the crisis that we have. So first things first.

Know who you are. Then after you know who you are learn your mission and then you'll be able to read the signs.

This is okay. Now. This is important. You need to know who you are. Okay, who's he gonna teach you that you are. You're gonna hear him teach you. Well, you may be one of the people who are part of the lost ten tribes of Israel.

The order that we will walk through.

The scriptures in this message. First and foremost, I want to ask the question Who do you say that Israel is first of all. 99 of people will say the Jews when I ask that question now.

I gotta let you know this. This is a question designed to point out people's general ignorance. There's a lot of ignorance as to who Israel is and his definition here is really quite accurate. And so the idea here is to show you.

You probably don't know as much as you think you know when it comes to Israel and the Jews. Listen to the questions. They're actually pretty well constructed. Can I get a cup on stage, please for me?

The country in the Middle East that is always fighting the Arabs. That's something that people say all the time. Jacob of the Old Testament, they know a little bit about their Bibles. They'll say that his name was changed to Israel and The church that's the top four most responsive most Popular responses when I ask the question who is Israel today and then lastly number five is Christians in general.

Well. We're gonna walk through this and we're gonna find out exactly what the scriptures says. Who Israel is and I think it might surprise you first of all common. Miss the Jewish people were the chosen people in the Old Testament.

How many have heard that grew up like I did and even taught that some of you pastors out there by the way. How many pastors or ministry leaders do we have in here? Just raise your hand. We want to honor you tonight.

Can you give a round of applause for the shepherds that are in the house? Hey, man. Glad that you're here. But this is what I used to teach is the Jewish people are the chosen people now. This was like an uncomfortable for me.

Because I didn't quite understand when I say the chosen people, you know, what what did that mean? Okay now this is important.

This is a semantic issue at this point because when he's talking about the Jewish people in if you're really biblically correct and accurate. The Jewish people do not comprise all of Israel. Israel is comprised of 12 tribes.

The Jewish people are those descendant from Judah. Hence, they are Jewish. So, you know to say that God chose the Jewish people is to commit, you know an error because you can say God chose Israel and of Israel in Israel, there's 12 tribes.

The Jews are One of the twelve. That's what he's really doing here.

But watch as he unpacks this chosen people and are they still chosen people today? Thank you. And and how did that all fit in. And what if they don't believe in Jesus but the Jewish people are chosen and they might.

Ever like just ignore that subject in church, right? We don't want to touch that one with a 10-foot pole. We're gonna touch that one tonight. The Torah and the law was given to the Jews. That's another most common Misheld myth that will drastically change how you read your Bible is these myths that the enemy has promulgated for.

Almost 2 ,000 years and now this is important if you're gonna understand the proper perspective on the Torah. You need to understand its function within the Mosaic Covenant. Go back and listen to yesterday's program.

Number three the Passover that Jesus kept along with the other feast days of the Bible that the disciples kept were Jewish Feast days. This is the number one thing that people will tell me when I say, hey, man, I love the feast days.

I've been keeping them for a few years now. They have revolutionized my family's life.

That's right. If you are in the Hebrew roots movement, you don't celebrate Christmas. You don't celebrate Easter. Those are pagan holidays. No, you celebrate the Passover the Feast of Weeks and the Jewish New Moon festivals and things like that.

I don't even know how I existed without them. They're that unbelievable. They're all about the Messiah. And they say you're keeping those those are those are Jewish holidays. How many have heard that they're Jewish holidays, right?

Well true and not true. We're gonna find out tonight. So, let me ask you a question. That is on the heels of this question. How many tribes were at the base of Mount Sinai when the commandments were given?

12 and two of them were half tribes.

All 12 tribes. Next question logical to be asked is how many were Jewish? One tribe one tribe was Jewish which begs the question. Where are the other ones? Because if they were given to all of Israel all the 12 tribes.

Then they can't possibly be Jewish or that's just not fair. The Jewish people cannot own the holidays. They're just.

One tribe. Notice of the distinction he's making he's making and by the way, this is an accurate distinction a distinction between Israel all of Israel and Judah where we get the word Jewish from and Pointing out that it's not fair.

Yeah, you know that we're talking about only Jewish holidays. No, these are Israeli.

Holidays. And I'll go in a little bit deeper on that as we walk through the scriptures. And here are all the tribes that are out here Asher Issachar Simeon Levi Gad Rumen Judah and Joseph. And we're going to focus on those two as we walk through your Bible now.

Technically Joseph isn't.

The tribe it's the half tribe of Manasseh and the half tribe of Ephraim.

The firstborn blessing was split into two. I'm gonna listen. This is normally an hour and a half message. I'm gonna try to condense this into four hours. So it's gonna be difficult for me to do that. So forgive me if I if I talk a little bit fast.

But we're gonna skip through the scriptures all the way to the blessing where Jacob is going to bless His son and give them the firstborn blessing. Now normally the firstborn blessing was given to one person the firstborn.

How many recognize in the scriptures that Yahweh is not concerned about lineage of the firstborn? He has a firstborn flesh and a firstborn spirit. He's concerned about those that are born spiritually the firstborn and so instead of it going to one person the firstborn blessing got split into two first time in history and since and it goes like this first of all their firstborn blessing received kingship preeminence and Priestly blessing this went to Judah who was the fourth born.

Secondly the doubt there was a double material portion that normally all went to the same person the kingly brushing blessing the preeminence. The one that took care of the family and all the double portion so that he could take care of the family normally all went To one person, but it got split into two.

When Jacob laid his hands on his two sons. One to Judah got the kingship blessing the priestly blessing and the double portion blessing went to Joseph. This would be prophetic of something that would happen later when the kingdom of Israel would be split into two how many believe like Brad Scott always says that God Is smarter than we are?

How many recognize that from the creation of the world? He is always giving? Messages of something that's going to happen in the future always if we'll just have eyes to see and Ears to hear with the Spirit of Saint if we'll actually read the front of the book.

Always giving messages of what he's going to do in the future. Hmm now if by that you mean that the Old Testament there's types and Shadows that are pointing us to what God is going to accomplish in the New Testament.

Okay, I'm with you. By the way I'm the reason I would be with him on that is because the New Testament makes it clear that in the Old Testament We have to pass and skia. These are the Greek words for types and shadows.

We would be able to understand the prophetic things that happen at the end of the book. And I hope that you'll see some of this as we walk through this tonight. The blessing continues and Ephraim and Manasseh.

I'm gonna remember Joseph right. Jacob grandfather Jacob goes to lay hands on Ephraim and on Manasseh the firstborn which is Jacob's excuse me, Joseph's firstborn. Joseph's in Egypt at the time and Jacob now is living in Israel with Joseph and he's going to bless his grandsons and he starts with the firstborn.

So Joseph brings Manasseh up and Jacob says no Ephraim is the one that is going to get the blessing and it goes like this Genesis chapter 48 verse 19 says. But his father refused and Said I know my son Joseph.

I know he also. Talking about Manasseh shall become a great people. He shall be great but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he and his descendants will be as a multitude of Nations. Now we're going to focus on this term Multitude of nations because this is going to be literally one of the most important phrases that can be found in your Bible.

The term multitude of nations his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. In Hebrew is mellow ha goyim. Everybody say mellow ha goyim close enough. This is what it means the fullness of the Gentiles and some of your translations will act.

Hey, that is not accurate.

Mellow ha mellow ha. Goyim. Multitude of nations. Okay. It is not correct to say that that equals the fullness of the Gentiles. That would Absolutely be inaccurate and I'm gonna base this on some other cross references that I took the time to look into.

You know, for instance, let's go back to Genesis chapter 17. Okay. Here's what actually do we'll go to Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12 verse 2. Okay, God speaking to Abraham. It says and I will make of you a great nation.

And I will bless you and make your name great so that you will be a blessing. Okay, so when we look at that, okay, we've got the word nation there. Okay, and what's the word for nation goy? Okay. Now we got to be real careful here.

What does the Hebrew word goy mean? It could mean Nations it can mean people it can mean a community. Okay, so to somehow just say that oh, you know that that it means fullness of the Gentiles. That's not exactly what it's saying and that's not what it means.

Let me let me go to Genesis chapter 17 Here and talking about Abraham. This is where Abrams name is changed. Abraham fell on his face and God said to him behold my covenant is with you and you shall be the father of a Multitude of Nations by the way same.

Same kind of idea here multitude of nations no longer shall your name be called Abram but from your from but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you the father of a multitude of Nations and I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make you into Nations goyim and kings shall come from you.

So here's the question in Genesis 17 where we have this almost identical language same concept. Okay multitude of nations. Should we infer here that this is time that God is promising to Abraham that he will make him into the fullness of the Gentiles.

No, what what does this mean full multitude of nations? Are you ready? Here's what it means coming out of Abraham. There will be many nations many Nations not just one many. Okay, and the word for nations there in the Genesis 17 Verse 6 make you into goyim.

Does that mean that God is saying that hey, I'm gonna make you into into Gentiles. No, that's not what that is saying at all and this is where some of the word Games of the Hebrew roots movement needs to be exposed for what it is Melocha goyim does not equate to fullness of the Gentiles this is a word game that they've just engaged in in order to Kind of prove their identity crisis thing that the reason why there's so many Goyim coming, you know to Jesus is because they are really in fact according to Genesis 48.

What this is the promise to Ephraim that that you know that his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. That what they really are, you know that they're part of the long-lost ten tribes of Israel.

But the thing is is multitude of nations does it is not synonymous with the concept of fullness of The Gentiles and here's another reason why okay Gentiles itself. You know basically it has as its concept, you know, those who are non Jewish those who are non Israeli.

Okay, that's what it you know, what it mean what it means in the Greek. The word is ethnos people nations. Okay, and it can mean that it can means people who are not Jewish as well as it can Mean, you know nations, you know, you know the nation of Syria the nation.

Okay, that that it can mean that but to say that it means the fullness of the Gentiles. This is a word game going on here and he's just pulled a fast one.

Actually say this now. Think about this for just a moment. The word Gentile means out of covenant. No, it doesn't.

In fact, I spent a large part of the afternoon today Researching the word Gentile nowhere. Do you find the word Gentile meaning out of covenant though? Gent the word Gentile itself is Latin in origin and its general idea is people ethnicity or group.

It doesn't and and it's the the word the Latin word gent, you know that it comes from has does not break down into. Into out of covenant. Okay. The Hebrew word that is used off that is used to refer to people who are non-jewish the goyim.

That word also does not mean out of covenant and I would point, you know people simply to You know a good resource Like the Brown driver and Briggs lexicon of the of the Hebrew Old Testament. Okay. Here's here, you know, here's the word goy the and the plural is goyim.

Nation people community you know. Nation people of descendants of Abraham. This is you know. So no the word goyim does not mean by the way the word goyim. The word ethnos and the word Gentile Do not mean out of covenant.