Are Gentile Christians Part of the Lost Tribes of Israel?

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It's time for another edition of Fighting for the

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Faith, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013. Now, today's episode is technically not a light episode.

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We're going to be covering a pretty complicated thing regarding the

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Hebrew Roots Movement. But that's the only thing we're going to do today. Thank you for tuning in.

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You're listening to Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Rosebrough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. And this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical discernment.

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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

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Word of God. Now, one of the dangers that is out there in the greater religious landscape, if you would, and kind of under the greater umbrella of religions that somehow identify with Jesus or Yeshua, the

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Messiah, is, well, the danger is that there are groups that are cultic.

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And that is, what I mean by that is that they, although they use the names Jesus and, you know, and the

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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

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Mormonism. Mormonism, although they claim to be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day

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Saints. By the way, the important word in that title is the word the. They claim to be the

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Church of Jesus Christ, not a Church of Jesus Christ. The definite article is important there.

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And they'll say, hey, we believe in Jesus. We believe that we're saved by grace after everything we can do.

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And you say, what does that mean? And then when you find out, well, who is Jesus? And you ask, well, who is he?

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And they'll say, well, Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer, born to our father Elohim on, you know, to one of his many plural wives near Starbase Kolob.

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And you're thinking, what on earth is that? And, oh, he's the spirit brother of Lucifer, too.

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You realize you're not dealing with the same Jesus. So one of the dangers of cults is that they hijack

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Christian terminology, empty out the biblical meanings of those texts, and pour in other meanings.

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So what happens is there's a semantic hurdle that you've got to cross in order to be able to communicate with them.

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Well, a similar thing is happening with the Hebrew roots movement. Although they talk about Yeshua, which is the

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Hebrew word for Jesus' name, and they talk about the Messiah and things like that, they've got a very interesting set of beliefs.

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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.

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And what I mean by that is just rank false teaching, shallow teaching, especially in many of the seeker -driven churches or evangelical churches that strive to be like Saddleback or Willow Creek, or churches like that, what happens is that people attend those churches for a couple years, and they're no wiser as to what the

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Bible teaches. In fact, they may even be confused more as to what the Bible teaches, because at no time in the preaching that occurs on the stages at these seeker -driven churches is their in -depth exegetical preaching.

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Instead, it's five verses ripped out of context. It's like the Bible's stripped mind for life principles that you can apply to make your sex life better, to improve your finances, to find your purpose, to get better -behaved children, stuff like that.

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And as a result of it, these are people who don't have any in -depth understanding of what the

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Bible says and really teaches, and may actually desire for some depth and for some meat.

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And so they're hunting, and they're looking around, and they might come across somebody who's been exposed to the

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Hebrew Roots Movement who'll say, hey, we'll tell you all about the Old Testament, and how you can really—we're going to give you the secret to really unpacking what the

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Bible's really about. And next thing you know, these people are keeping kosher laws.

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They're claiming to be Torah observant. They're wearing tzitzit.

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They're celebrating the Jewish holidays because these folks claim that Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays.

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And if you celebrate Easter, you're worshipping the goddess Ashtoreth. And by the way, historically that's not true.

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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.

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It's really bad history, and it can't be backed up. If you follow me on Facebook and Twitter, then you saw that yesterday

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I sent out links to articles that just completely debunk 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?

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Yeah, it's just steeped in rank paganism. And to some degree they're right.

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But what they're pointing to is not even the thing to be pointing at. And so they're going to say, well, we've got the truth, and you want to get the inside skinny.

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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

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Torah observant and get back to the Hebrew roots of Christianity.

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And all this is done in the name of recovering first century Christianity. 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

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Christian. And they might even eschew the word Christian. They might call themselves Christians.

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They might use different terms altogether. But the Hebrew roots movement, when you really delve deep into it, there are some major problems.

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And so what we're going to do on today's episode of Fighting for the Faith is we're going to actually do an in -depth sermon review, if you would, of kind of the entry video.

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For those, think of it this way, is that when you think about first steps, how does somebody get hooked into something like the

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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

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Truth Ministries out of St. Louis. He's got this video called

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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 this is the door into the

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Hebrew roots movement. 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,

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I would have never gone into the Hebrew roots movement. But thank God I'm out of it. This is an email

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I received from somebody yesterday. So here's the idea. What we're going to do is we're going to do an in -depth sermon review today.

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It's a long sermon. It's over an hour long. But the idea here is that this video and this teaching,

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OK, it's not just this video, but this teaching in particular, the way it's presented, oftentimes is the doorway in to the

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Hebrew roots movement. And if you would take the time to listen with biblical discernment, you would see the problems immediately.

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But the idea here is that Jim Staley, he's a nice looking kid. He's a sincere guy.

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He speaks with passion and he speaks like he knows what he's talking about. And so, I mean, who can fault him?

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Well, I'm going to fault him because by the time you listen to the end of this thing, and I'm going to ask that you take the time to listen to the whole thing, because it's not until the last part of this message that the false gospel of the

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Hebrew roots movement makes its appearance. It doesn't appear early on. It appears almost at the very end.

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And what I warned you about yesterday, the Hebrew roots movement conflates, takes the

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Old Testament covenants and conflates them into one continuous covenant that's still in effect.

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So if you haven't listened to yesterday's episode of Fighting for the Faith, that would be the

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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

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Christians are under a new covenant. It's not one continuous covenant. Christians are under a new covenant.

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If 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 before we get into this, because let's just put it this way.

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On the subtlety meter, hard to identify,

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Jim Staley's false teaching here is really nuanced in certain places.

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And as a result of it, if you don't know the truth, you're not going to quite have the same, let's just say you're not going to be able to spot the problem when it comes up.

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But don't worry, I'll point it out to you when we get to it. So we're going to dive into the program proper.

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I should warn you that we will take one break today during the program.

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Not sure where, but I'll pause to pay some bills partway through the program today. As this unfolds, we won't have two.

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We'll only have one. And just make yourself comfortable. You might want to take some notes.

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But like I said, this is the entry video into the Hebrew Roots Movement and the basic premises, kind of the first two basic premises of the

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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.

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It'll be emphasized. You'll hear it a couple of times in this lecture.

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But the second one is this idea that Christians who, for lack of a better way of putting it, have been

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Gentiles, what they are in reality, the reason why they're responding to the gospel is because they are part of the

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Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Yeah, you heard that right. Literally what

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Jim Staley is teaching 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

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Lost Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom. Yep, that's exactly what you're going to hear today.

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And listen carefully along the way. You might notice that he has some very interesting ways in which he talks about Jesus.

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It's subtle, it's nuanced, but many in the Hebrew Roots Movement openly deny the doctrine of the

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Trinity, which means they deny that Jesus Christ is Yahweh, that he's

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God in human flesh. Instead, they'll refer to him as, well, Jesus or Yeshua is

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God's divine word. That's the way they'll talk about him, but they won't say he's God in human flesh.

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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.

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And it's important to note, if you're listening to this program and you're thinking, well, what do you know about Hebrew?

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What do you know about, yeah. Well, let's just put it this way. I'll say it. Anim avin avrit, va 'ani med abed avrit.

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That means I understand and I speak Hebrew. Okay, so I'm actually well versed in Hebrew. My degree 20 years ago was in Religious Studies in Biblical Languages.

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Let's just say I'm familiar with Hebrew. So with that, we're going to dive into the program proper.

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I do not have any Hebrew roots update music. I was tempted to pick Hava Nagila, but I thought that that could be misconstrued, and somebody would accuse me of being anti -Semitic when

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I'm like the last thing from being anti -Semitic. I have a deep and profound respect for Hebrew culture, theology, and other things.

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It's something that I've studied for years. With that, we're going to dive into the program proper.

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Here is Jim Staley's lecture entitled Identity Crisis. This is one of the doorway teachings into the

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Hebrew Roots Movement. Here we go. All right.

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I am glad to be here this evening, and I am excited about this topic that I'm going to be talking about tonight.

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How many have gone through their life, and you can pinpoint in your life a moment, a defining moment where your life changed?

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You can absolutely remember the time, the day. You can smell the fragrance in the air.

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You know what you were wearing. You know who you were talking to. But at that moment, your life changed.

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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

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I'm getting ready to tell you this evening, what I'm getting ready 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.

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Let me put this in front of you this evening. This was my defining moment.

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This was the moment that Jim Staley's life changed when I began to find out who

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I am. Okay. Now, this is important. He's not speaking in hyperbole here. You interview and talk with people in the

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Hebrew Roots Movement. They oftentimes will point you to this teaching, not this particular video, but this particular teaching.

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It's about finding out who you are. You, according to the Hebrew Roots Movement, if you are somebody who is part of the goyim, that would be

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Gentiles, and you are believing in the Messiah, yeah, more than likely you are one of the people who are part of the

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Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Spoiler alert, but that's what he's going to be building up to here.

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So it's important that you see that this is what he's building up to. How many recognize that 77 % of all college students that claim the name of the

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Messiah, 77 % by the end of their freshman year in college deny the

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Messiah. I got to talk to one of the head executives here in St.

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Louis of Campus Crusade for Christ. He says, Jim, it's far worse than that. You're exactly right, 70 some odd percent deny the

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Messiah by the end of their first year in freshman. But what's worse than that is of the remaining 23%, 95 % of the remaining

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Christians cannot tell you for sure, if they died, that they would literally spend eternal life with the

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Father. And so now he begins by laying out what many of us know are the major problems in the visible church today.

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Which, by the way, I think there's a sneaking suspicion running around in my head that we're dealing with an apostasy or the

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Great One. I'm not sure. I couldn't tell you for sure because I am no eschatological expert.

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But what we're seeing here is a major falling away and rebellion within the visible church. Yeah, the reason for that, well,

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God hasn't exactly explained now, has he? Folks, that remains very few of our young people, the next generation, what they call

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Generation X and Generation Y, that don't even know, not just their

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Messiah, but what their Bible says about their own salvation. How many recognize that teen pregnancy is off the charts in the church?

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How many recognize that crime among young people in the church is up? How many realize over the last 30 years, excuse me, 50 years in church history,

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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 over the last 50 years, church attendance is going through the floor.

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People are leaving and abandoning churches left and right. This is true. Why is that?

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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?

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Yes, I think the two are directly related. There's something wrong. And so what

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I want to propose to you in this message this evening is that we have got to find what the problem is.

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But before we do, let me ask you this, because some of you feel like this.

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Raise your hand. Now, the slide shows a stop sign with a bunch of signs underneath it.

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One says, you know, don't turn left, don't turn right, don't turn back, don't go forward. So it's very confusing.

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Now, here's what I want everybody to do. I want you to, everybody, breathe in real deep. Now, breathe out.

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You're going to need all the oxygen that you're going to get for this weekend, because at the end of this weekend, you're not going to feel like this.

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You're going to feel like this. And now, rather than a stop sign, it's a bunch of signs pointing in all kinds of different directions, and it looks like the language that it's written in is

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Japanese. This may have been the photograph taken in downtown Tokyo. You're not only going to be able to read the signs, and you're not sure exactly which way to go.

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You're going to know where the signs are, but now you're not going to 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.

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So, you're laughing now because some of you have not been to our conference. But wait until the end of the weekend when you feel like this.

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But I can assure you, here is where everything begins. How many recognize that the only way to know how to get from point

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A to point B is to read a map? How many are old enough to know what a map is? Because my generation, we have never seen one.

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I'm the older X generation. My Y generation below me, they don't even know what a paper map is.

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It's GPS, right? And maps talk to you these days. Can you believe that? I can't stand it.

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I turn her off because she always tells me to go in circles. Make a left. U -turn. I just made a U -turn.

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So, by the end of this weekend, we want to encourage you to do one thing. Look up at the signs because they're on their way.

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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.

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Okay? So bear with me as we walk through this because some of you are going to be astounded and even shocked.

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Maybe even what some of the feedback we get is blown away at this message. And I want to say off the bat, this is not my message.

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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

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Word, then we have come to a place where we recognize that we are in a crisis. We are in a crisis.

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And because we are in a crisis, we need to find out why we're in a crisis, discover what brought us to the crisis, and then find a way to get out of the crisis.

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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

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Creator. Do you realize that the most popular book that was ever sold... So you can't serve your

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Creator until you know your purpose? So somewhere rattling around in Jim Staley's theology is

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Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life book. In the history of the world, outside of the

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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.

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

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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.

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This is... Okay, now this is important. You need to know who you are, okay? Who's he going to teach you that you are?

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You're going to hear him teach you. Well, you may be one of the people who are part of the

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Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. The order that we will walk through the scriptures in this message.

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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

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Jews when I ask that question. Now, I've got to let you know this. This is a question designed to point out people's general ignorance.

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There's a lot of ignorance as to who Israel is. And his definition here is really quite accurate.

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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

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Jews. Listen to the questions. They're actually pretty well constructed. Can I get a cup on stage, please, for me?

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The country in the Middle East that is always fighting the Arabs. That's something that people say all the time. Jacob of the

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Old Testament. They know a little bit about their Bibles. They'll say that as his name was changed to Israel. And the church.

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That's the top four most responsive, most popular responses when

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I ask the question, who is Israel today? And then lastly, number five, is

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Christians in general? Well, we're going to walk through this and we're going to find out exactly what the Scripture says who

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Israel is. And I think it might surprise you. First of all, common myths. The Jewish people were the chosen people in the

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Old Testament. How many have heard that, grew up like I did, and even taught that? We've got some of you pastors out there.

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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?

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Amen. Glad that you're here. But this is what

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I used to teach, is the Jewish people are the chosen people. And this was kind of uncomfortable for me because I didn't quite understand when

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I say the chosen people, what did that mean? Okay, now this is important. This is a semantic issue at this point.

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Because when he's talking about the Jewish people, if you're really biblically correct and accurate, the

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Jewish people do not comprise all of Israel. Israel is comprised of 12 tribes.

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The Jewish people are those descended from Judah, hence they are

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Jewish. So to say that God chose the Jewish people is to commit an error because you can say

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God chose Israel, and in Israel there's 12 tribes.

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The Jews are one of the 12. That's what he's really doing here, but watch as he unpacks this.

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Chosen people, and are they still chosen people today? Thank you. And how did that all fit in?

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And what if they don't believe in Jesus, but the Jewish people are chosen, and anybody ever just ignore that subject in church, right?

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We don't want to touch that one with a 10 -foot pole. We're going to touch that one tonight. The Torah and the law was given to the

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Jews. That's another most common misheld myth that will drastically change how you read your

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Bible, is these myths that the enemy has promulgated for almost 2 ,000 years.

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Now this is important. If you're going to understand the proper perspective on the Torah, you need to understand its function within the

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Mosaic Covenant. Go back and listen to yesterday's program. Number three, the

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Passover that Jesus kept, along with the other feast days of the Bible that the disciples kept, were Jewish feast days.

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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.

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They have revolutionized my family's life. That's right. If you are in the Hebrew roots movement, you don't celebrate

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Christmas, you don't celebrate Easter. Those are pagan holidays. No, you celebrate the

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Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Jewish New Moon festivals and things like that.

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I don't even know how I existed without them. They're that unbelievable. They're all about the Messiah. And I say, you're keeping those.

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Those are Jewish holidays. How many have heard that? They're Jewish holidays, right?

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Well, true and not true. We're going to find out tonight. So let me ask you a question that is on the heels of this question.

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How many tribes were at the base of Mount Sinai when the commandments were given? Twelve, and two of them were half tribes.

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All twelve tribes. Next question, logical to be asked, is how many were Jewish? One tribe.

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One tribe was Jewish, which begs the question, where are the other ones?

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Because if they were given to all of Israel, all the twelve tribes, then they can't possibly be

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Jewish, or that's just not fair. The Jewish people cannot own the holidays. They're just one tribe.

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Notice the distinction he's making. By the way, this is an accurate distinction. A distinction between Israel, all of Israel, and Judah, where we get the word

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Jewish from, and pointing out that it's not fair that we're talking about only

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Jewish holidays. No, these are Israeli holidays. And I'll go in a little bit deeper on that as we walk through the

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Scriptures. And here are all the tribes that are out here. Asher, Issachar, Simeon, Levi, Gad, Ruman, Judah, and Joseph.

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And we're going to focus on those two as we walk through your Bible. Now, technically, Joseph isn't a tribe.

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It's the half -tribe of Manasseh and the half -tribe of Ephraim. The firstborn blessing was split into two.

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Listen, this is normally an hour -and -a -half message. I'm going to try to condense this into four hours, so it's going to be difficult for me to do that.

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So forgive me if I talk a little bit fast. But we're going to skip through the

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Scriptures all the way to the blessing, where Jacob is going to bless his son and give him the firstborn blessing.

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Now, normally the firstborn blessing was given to one person, the firstborn.

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Now, how many recognize in the Scriptures that Yahweh is not concerned about lineage of the firstborn?

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He has a firstborn flesh and a firstborn spirit. He's concerned about those that are born spiritually, the firstborn.

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And so, instead of it going to one person, the firstborn blessing got split into two, first time in history and since.

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And it goes like this. First of all, the firstborn blessing received kingship, preeminence, and priestly blessing.

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This went to Judah, who was the fourthborn. Secondly, there was a double material portion that normally all went to the same person.

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The kingly 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.

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But it got split into two when Jacob laid his hands on his two sons.

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One to Judah got the kingship blessing, the priestly blessing, and the double portion blessing went to Joseph.

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This would be prophetic of something that would happen later when the kingdom of Israel would be split into two.

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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?

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Always. If we'll just have eyes to see and ears to hear with the spirit of saying, if we'll actually read the front of the book.

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Always giving messages of what he's going to do in the future? Hmm. Now, if by that you mean that the

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Old Testament, there's types and shadows that are pointing us to what God is going to accomplish in the

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New Testament, okay, I'm with you. By the way, the reason

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I would be with him on that is because the New Testament makes it clear that in the Old Testament, we have tupas and skia.

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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.

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And I hope that you'll see some of this as we walk through this tonight. The blessing continues in Ephraim and Manasseh. I'm going to remember

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Joseph, right? Jacob. Grandfather Jacob goes to lay hands on Ephraim and on Manasseh, the firstborn, which is

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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.

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So Joseph brings Manasseh up, and Jacob says, No, Ephraim is the one that is going to get the blessing.

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And it goes like this. Genesis 48, verse 19 says, But his father refused and said,

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I know my son Joseph, I know. He also, talking about Manasseh, shall become a great people.

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He shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants will be as a multitude of nations.

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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

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Bible. The term multitude of nations, his descendants shall become a multitude of nations, in Hebrew is melohagoyim.

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Everybody say, melohagoyim. Close enough. This is what it means.

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The fullness of the Gentiles. And some of your translations will ask, Hey, that is not accurate.

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Melohagoyim, multitude of nations. It is not correct to say that that equals the fullness of the

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Gentiles. That would absolutely be inaccurate. And I'm going to base this on some other cross -references that I took the time to look into.

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For instance, let's go back to Genesis chapter 17. Here's what...

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Actually, we'll go to Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12, verse 2. God speaking to Abraham.

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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.

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So, when we look at that, we've got the word nation there. And what's the word for nation?

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Goy. Now, we've got to be real careful here. What does the Hebrew word goy mean?

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It could mean nations. It could mean people. It could mean a community. So, to somehow just say that it means fullness of the

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Gentiles, that's not exactly what it's saying, and that's not what it means. Let me go to Genesis chapter 17 here, talking about Abraham.

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This is where Abraham's 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.

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By the way, same kind of idea here. Multitude of nations.

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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be

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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.

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So, here's the question. In Genesis 17, where we have this almost identical language, same concept, okay?

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Multitude of nations. Should we infer here that God is promising to Abraham that he will make him into the fullness of the

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Gentiles? No. What does this mean? Multitude of nations.

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Are you ready? Here's what it means. Coming out of Abraham, there will be many nations.

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Many nations. Not just one, many, okay? And the word for nations there in Genesis 17, verse 6, make you into goyim.

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Does that mean that God is saying that, Hey, I'm going to make you into Gentiles? No, that's not what that is saying at all.

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And this is where some of the word games of the

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Hebrew roots movement needs to be exposed for what it is. Melocha goyim does not equate to fullness of the

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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 to Jesus is because they are really, in fact, according to Genesis 48, this is the promise to Ephraim that his descendants shall become a multitude of nations, that what they really are, that they're part of the long lost ten tribes of Israel.

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But the thing is, this multitude of nations, it is not synonymous with the concept of fullness of the

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Gentiles. And here's another reason why. Gentiles itself basically has as its concept, those who are non -Jewish, those who are non -Israeli.

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That's what it means. In the Greek, the word is ethnos, people, nations.

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And it can mean that. It can mean people who are not Jewish, as well as it can mean the nation of Syria.

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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.

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Actually say this. Now think about this for just a moment. The word Gentile means out of covenant.

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No, it doesn't. In fact, I spent a large part of the afternoon today researching the word

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Gentile. Nowhere do you find the word Gentile meaning out of covenant. The word

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Gentile itself is Latin in origin, and its general idea is people, ethnicity, or group.

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And the Latin word that it comes from does not break down into out of covenant.

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The Hebrew word that is used to refer to people who are non -Jewish, the goyim, that word also does not mean out of covenant.

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And I would point people simply to a good resource like the

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Brown, Driver, and Briggs lexicon of the Hebrew Old Testament. Here's the word goyim, and the plural is goyim, nation, people, community.

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Nation, people of descendants of Abraham. So no, the word goyim does not mean, by the way, the word goyim, the word ethnos, and the word

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Gentile do not mean out of covenant. So what Jim Staley is doing here is passing on false information.

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In fact, I would recommend you do some research on this. Show me a respected

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Hebrew lexicon that says goyim means out of covenant, or the word

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Gentile means out of covenant, or the word ethnos in the Greek means out of covenant. It doesn't.

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That's not what it means. So if you think you're a Gentile Christian, that means you're an out -of -covenant

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Christian. I wouldn't brag about that. There's no such thing as Jew, and everybody say it with me, there's no such thing as.

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So don't call yourself a Gentile Christian, number one. Second of all, this is incredible if you look at the storyline because Jacob is laying his hand on his grandson

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Ephraim and says he is going to be a fullness of the Gentiles. No, he's not.

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He's saying he's going to be a multitude of nations. Again, he's completely, completely working against what that text says.

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In fact, let's take a look at some other translations of this passage to see what they say on this matter.

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The English Standard Version says, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.

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The New American Standard says, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.

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The NIV says, and his descendants will become a group of nations.

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The King James says, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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The ASV, and his seed shall become a multitude. ASV, by the way, is similar to the

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King James, shall become a multitude of nations. You get it?

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Something's going weird here, and what he's doing is he's basically trying to change the translation into, and he will be the fullness of the

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Gentiles, which, by the way, should ring a bell because that should sound like a

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New Testament text because it is. What we're basically trying to get here is some kind of prophecy then over Ephraim regarding the fullness of the

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Gentiles, but this is important to note here. One of the other ways in which what he's going to do breaks down is that Ephraim is only one of the ten northern tribes that breaks away from Israel, and they become

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Israel. Actually, that's their name. Israel in the north and then Judah and Benjamin are in the south.

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So this is going to break down also because the prophetic significance of all of this breaks down because this wasn't a general prophecy for the ten tribes that would break away.

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This was a blessing for Ephraim, not all ten tribes or all twelve in this particular case.

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We continue. Some of you Bible students out there, some of you pastors and ministry leaders, you already have quoting the verse in the

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New Testament that I'm talking about that we'll visit a little bit later. The fullness of the Gentiles. He is going to be a bunch of out -of -covenant people.

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Again, goyim, ethnos, and Gentile, none of those words mean out of covenant. That's not true.

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That's what the verse is really saying. Let's move forward from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Ephraim.

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Ephraim, who now carried the firstborn blessing of the house of Israel, was to be a multitude of nations.

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Which tribe was this promise made to? All twelve or just one? One, the half -tribe of Ephraim.

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Remember that. We're going to come back to that. It's going to be significant as we walk through this particular message.

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Again, this is the doorway teaching into the Hebrew roots movement, and already we've got some fast and loose playing with words here.

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Hebrew roots, it's really not that. This is a complex twisting of God's Word.

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We cannot do what we're doing, warning the Body of Christ about false teachers and slick, nuanced theology that sounds like it's offering people depth when it's really offering them false doctrine and really complicated

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Bible twisting without your help. By the way, the Hebrew word for covenant is berith.

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It's not goyim. So goyim and berith, they're not related to each other except they're in the same language.

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Just wanted to pass that along. So let's get back to the lecture. This is going to be a super long segment.

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This is the Balance of the Identity Crisis lecture by Jim Staley. And already there's some pretty significant, well, monkey business going on here with what he's trying to do with the blessing of Ephraim, you know, making, saying it, turning it into, oh, you're going to be the fullness of the

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Gentiles, fast and loose there, to say the least, what he's doing, saying that goyim or the

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Gentiles means out of covenant. No, it doesn't. And all of this is building up to something.

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So let's continue. Here's Jim Staley. So here's where they started out. How many understand that the

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Israelites started out in Canaan? How many realize that?

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They started out in Canaan, then what happened? Where'd they go? They ended up in Egypt. Then where'd they end up?

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Back in Canaan. Think prophetically. Everybody put on your prophecy hats, your prophetic hat.

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What that simply means is that you have got to look and have your eyes and your ears constantly keen to the stories that are found in your

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Bible. Because as a Christian growing up in my local congregation, I was always taught. By the way, this is types and shadow, and I don't have a problem with where he's going with this.

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As a Christian growing up in my local congregation, I was always taught, literally, maybe no one ever said this, but I was always taught that the

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Old Testament, just by mere nature, is old, and the New Testament, just by the fact that we're using that terminology, is what?

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New. Okay, listen to what he said there. What he said, I think, is the indictment.

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Because there's not any real in -depth biblical teaching going on, whatever the church that he went to,

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Old Testament means it's old, New Testament means it's new, which means he never grew up in his church having an appreciation for what is there in the

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Old Testament. That's kind of the idea here is then that becomes the hook or the way by which he's attracted to the

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Hebrew Roots Movement, because the Hebrew Roots Movement says, oh, we'll tell you what the Old Testament's really about.

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So as a young boy that instantly, when I walk through McDonald's drive -thru, and I like new stuff, and I like fast stuff, and I'm American, and I want things now, it planted the thought in my mind that the

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Old Testament doesn't have any value. And then as I began to read the front of the book, I began to discover that every single story that's found in the

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Bible is about me and my Messiah, and when he comes back, I just need to listen and I need to hear.

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It's about me? No, it's about Christ. Jesus said to the

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Pharisees, you diligently search the Word of God because you think that in the Word of God you have life, yet they are the very scriptures that testify about me, and you refuse to come to me to have life.

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So notice that there's something in there about me. Well, what's that thing again? Spoiler alert. He's going to make the case that, well, he's part of the

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Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. And so the story of when they started out in Canaan is the same story they started out in the

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Garden of Eden. And then what happened? The enemy came in and snatched them up, put them in bondage, made them enslaved to such a degree until finally they cried out to their

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God. And at some point in that future, they literally were taken out of Egypt and into the

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Promised Land again. Ladies and gentlemen, we started out in the Garden. We started out in Canaan, the

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Promised Land. The enemy came, snatched us away. We've been in Egypt for 6 ,000 years, but at some point very soon,

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I believe, the Messiah is going to come back. Yeshua, the same Yahoshua, Yeshua that led them in the

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Promised Land so many years ago will lead us again into the Promised Land. Can I get an amen from that?

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Okay, now here's the irony here. What he just said, that's accurate. That's a good read on the metanarrative of the

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Old Testament. Again, type in shadow. Amen. All right, if everything is prophetic, and as we walk through this message,

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I believe that you're going to see that more and more. So standing at the Jordan River, one of the most incredible prophecies that I have never heard until I literally walked in the shoes in the last few years,

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I've never heard anybody. Prophecy teachers all across the world, you will not hear what I'm just getting ready to tell you as the most significant prophecy that has ever been given in the

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Scriptures is not about when the Messiah comes back. That is very popular, and everybody wants to talk about that, but there's things that happen that bring about the

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Messiah's return. Just like when you have a wedding ceremony, there are things that come about when you have that rehearsal dinner.

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Things that will bring about the Messiah's return? That's different than saying things that show you that His return is imminent.

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You know it's the next day, and as we're going to find out very shortly, this is what

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I'm talking about. Deuteronomy 28, verse 15 says this. But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of the

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Lord your God to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

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Now this is important. Deuteronomy 28 is the curses section of the

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Mosaic Covenant. Again, if you haven't listened to Michael Horton's lecture on the covenants, you need to do that in order to understand and rightly understand what this passage is about.

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Deuteronomy 28, this is the cursing with the Mosaic Covenant. There are blessings if you obey it, curses if you don't obey it, and the people of Israel took the curses upon themselves and said we will obey these things.

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So this is the cursing section of the covenant of the Mosaic Covenant.

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And again, there's not one covenant in the Old Testament. There's many. There's several. Remember, they're standing before the

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Jordan River just getting ready to cross over into the Promised Land. What a great pep talk. God said, by the way, you disobey me, you die.

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Now y 'all have a good time. I'll part the water for you one more time. If you don't follow me, and he continues, then

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Yahweh will scatter you through all the people from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wooden and stone.

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He continues, these are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Mount Sinai.

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So basically, he gives a covenant in Mount Sinai. This is the next generation. This is the original

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X generation, if you will, or whatever. This is the new generation. Their parents had watched all these miraculous things happen, and the next thing you know,

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Yahweh says, you were the new generation, you weren't necessarily there, but I'm going to reiterate the words of the covenant on top of the covenant that I gave your fathers.

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I'm going to put this covenant in your lap. If you do not obey me, I will allow you to be taken into captivity, and I will scatter you out throughout all of the earth.

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Now, you'd think that they would absolutely heed this call, but they don't. Verse 14, neither with you only do

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I make this covenant. This is key, listen up. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, but with him who stands here with us today before Yahweh our

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God, and also with him who is not here today. What does that mean? Brant talked about blood flowing through the veins.

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This means that not only for the physical people that are in this room, but every single person that comes after you for generations to generations to generations, for generations to come, all the way until the

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Messiah comes back. Okay, so what he's basically saying, the people who are not there, he's talking about the unborn generation of Israelites.

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Again, the whole thrust of this argument is that, well, if you're coming to the

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Messiah and you're not part of Judah and you're Jewish, well, then the reason for that is that you have the blood of Israel flowing through your veins.

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You're part of the Lost Ten Tribes. I'm speaking to them. See, Yahweh doesn't just speak to one group of people because he's up there and we are a ping pong ball.

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So when he speaks, it revolves around the earth. He speaks to us for all generations.

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He's outside of time, amen? Let's continue. And who are these people that he's talking about? Those that are of the promise.

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Those children of the covenant and all future Israelites and anyone that would attach themselves to the

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Israelites. This covenant, and this is why it's significant that we try to unravel what sometimes we've been told over our life.

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How many business owners in here, by the way? Any self -entrepreneurs, self -employed people, okay? Hats off to you.

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How many realize the scariest thing in the world is to be audited? All right? How many of you keep receipts like I used to?

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Like you keep a receipt, you throw it in your pocket, it comes out of the dryer, and then one day the IRS shows up and says, hey, by the way, we're just trying to look at your receipts.

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Oh, sure. Honey, where's the receipts at? Right? No one likes an audit.

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But every business, and especially corporations, audit themselves every single year. They even have people on staff.

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I met one the other day at OfficeMax. He was the head auditor for OfficeMax in all of St. Louis, and his job was to make sure that everything was in proper order and everything was working like it was supposed to.

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And if anything needed to change, they would change it. Can I ask a question? When was the last time us as Christians, as religious people across the planet, when was the last time religious people audit themselves?

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When was the last time that your denomination, if you are inside of a denomination today, when was the last time that you got a memo from the president of your organization that said, we're taking the next three months, we're auditing everything that we do and everything that we believe to make sure we're not offending the great

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God? Isn't it strange that we don't want to offend the IRS, we don't want to offend the government, we don't even want to offend our neighbor, but we don't even think twice about offending the great

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God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It's time for an audit. It's time for us to take a look at what we believe and make sure it's absolutely true.

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Nothing wrong with doing that, right? Okay, so all future Israelites, that's who he was talking to, everyone that are children of the promise.

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So now we're gonna move forward to the time of the kings. So the Israelites take back the land of Canaan and they want a king.

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Were they supposed to have a king? Absolutely not. So along came Saul, then David, then

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Solomon, three top kings in all of Israel that everyone's familiar with, even from a small child. And under these three kings, listen, all 12 tribes were ruled.

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This is critical to understand. I had a pastor tell me once a couple of years ago, Jim, I cannot believe that I did not learn this in seminary.

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You're gonna get an overview of the Bible. Three kings, all 12 tribes were governed under those kings.

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All 12 of those tribes were called what? Israel. So until Solomon blew it, 1

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Kings 11, chapter 31 says this, and he said to Jeroboam, who's his servant, take for yourself 10 pieces, for thus says

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Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you 10 tribes.

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This is the first indication of something incredibly prophetic that is gonna connect back to the blessing that was split.

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This is the moment. How many remember that there was a cloth? Okay, so Solomon blew it and here we've got

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God taking a cloth, breaking it into 12 pieces, and then 10 of them are being given to Jeroboam.

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Yeah. So this is supposedly a prophecy linking back to the blessing to Ephraim.

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That doesn't make any sense. The reason it doesn't make any sense is Ephraim is one of the 10 tribes.

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It's not all of them. It's one of them that commits idolatry and finds themselves eventually just completely scraped out of the covenant land.

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You know, the curses of the covenant fell on them hard, so hard they ceased to exist as Israelites.

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We continue. ...robe that was split and it was torn into 10 pieces, 12 really, 10 that went to the servant of Solomon.

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It was supposed to go to his son. So 10 tribes, this is gonna be important. Why did he split it?

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Because they forsaken me and worshiped Ashtaroth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my eyes and keep my statutes and my judgments as he did to father

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David. So here's where we go. When I lived in my house, how many had a dad that had something like this?

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At some point in your life, you as a son looked up to your dad on the ground, most likely on your back, and he said,

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Son, if you wanna live in my house, you're gonna play by my rules. It's like that in our own relationships.

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It's the same way with Yahweh. And he said, Sons, if you're not gonna play by my rules, you're out of my house. And it began to tear away the kingdom from Solomon, and he gave 10 tribes to his servant

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Jeroboam. And what we have here is an incredible verse. It says that because they worshiped

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Ashtaroth. Now, I never knew what Ashtaroth was or who Ashtaroth was as I was a believer in my local congregation growing up.

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But what I learned as I looked into that, there's all kinds of names. Astarte, the Greeks, and Ashtaroth, and Ishtar.

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And in English, it's actually pronounced Easter. Again, this is just flat -out, patently false, bad history.

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I'll send out a link to help clean this up so that you can research this for yourself and see good scholarship on this topic.

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No, when you celebrate Easter, you're not worshiping Ashtaroth. That's patently false, absolutely bad history that cannot be backed up when you actually do the real historical research on this.

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Some of you, Matt, it may be a shock for you to learn that, but Easter is the bare -breasted fertility goddess of the

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East. No, it's not. Sun god Baal's wife. No, it's not.

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Which should change your whole thought process when you say, Happy Easter.

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Again, this is one of the major shock value punches that the

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Hebrew roots movement throws at people. And when you take the time to really do the research, you find that this doesn't stand up to historical scrutiny.

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It's not so happy from his perspective because we don't even know what we're saying. Really, so if you celebrate

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Easter, the festival of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified, you, by proxy, apparently are really, in fact, worshiping the bare -breasted goddess of the

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Sidonians, Ashtaroth. Flat out a lie. It doesn't even make any sense when you take the time to think about it.

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The kingdom is split. So then the ten tribes in the north were called the House of Israel, the

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House of Joseph, or just plainly, Ephraim, because that's who got the blessing. Meloogoyim, the fullness of the

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Gentiles, the fullness of the nations. So this has become critical. Now, from this moment on, if you are sleeping, everybody wake up because at this point, everything is going to change.

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The northern kingdom was called the House of Israel or the House of Joseph or Ephraim. Two tribes in the southern kingdom were called the

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House of Judah because Judah received the firstborn blessing. So it was made up of mainly

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Judah and Benjamin. And although there were tribes that lived on both sides of the border, the majority of the tribes in the south were

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Benjamin and Judah, and so it was called the House of Judah in the south and the House of Israel in the north.

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So because of their continual breaking, the northern kingdom's constant breaking of the covenant that was given to Adam, then

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Noah, then Abraham, and finally written down through Moses, they were then taken captive by the king of Assyria around 722

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B .C. He warned them. This was the moment at the Jordan River where he said, Be careful.

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If you don't obey me, I'm going to allow you to be scattered into all the nations. This is that beginning moment.

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Then Judah, also played the harlot in 586 B .C., for 70 years, was taken off into Babylon, and most people are familiar with that.

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But after 70 years, what happened? Most of the House of Judah began to come back, and they rebuilt

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Jerusalem. So divided they fall. When they were allowed to come back, most of Judah came back from Babylon, but the northern house of Israel never came back.

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They assimilated into the nations. They were taken in captivity by Assyria, and then pushed into all four corners of the then -known world, which would eventually be all four corners of the earth today.

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They never came back. So let me throw this out to you, which will answer our beginning question of who are the

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Jews today. The reason why we even have the Jewish people today is because the southern kingdom came back.

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If they would not have come back out of captivity, ladies and gentlemen, you would not be in this room today. You realize that?

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We wouldn't even have a Bible to be looking at without them coming back. So let me ask a question.

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Where is the Assyrites, the Naphtalons, the Danites, all the other tribes?

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Where are they? They don't exist today because they never came back. How many tribes were at the base of Mount Sinai when the commandments were given?

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Twelve. But only literally the house of Judah exists today. That's why Israel is connected to the

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Jewish people. And because we don't, and this is just not a bad thing, this is just the facts of life, we're not taught to read the front of the book.

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We assume that the Bible was written to the Jews, and in the New Testament, it was written to Christians.

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That is the assumption. That is not what the Bible says. The Bible says it was written to all of Israel.

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Only 10 didn't come back. So the 10 tribes were taken into captivity and dispersed all across Assyria.

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Over time, they assimilated into the nations and became exactly what the prophecy said of Ephraim, the

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Meloigoim, the fullness of the nations. They became as Gentiles. It's a shock as we move through the

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New Testament. You'll see this. Two chapters later, Deuteronomy 31 through 6 says, Now it shall come to pass when all these things shall come upon you, the blessings and the curse which

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I have set before you, and you call them to mind, among the nations where the Lord God drives you, and you return to the

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Lord your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your strength, that Yahweh your

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Elohim will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where your

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Lord God has scattered you. Now what's interesting is you can't say this is Egypt. Egypt already happened.

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Doesn't that sound very similar? I would put money on it if I didn't know it, that he's talking about a prophecy about them going into Egypt and coming out, but that just happened.

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This is the Jordan River. He's talking about a future time when they would be taken into captivity and they'd be scattered throughout all the world, but if they would return, and this is the prophecy that I want to come across to you tonight, if they would return, this is right before the coming of the

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Messiah, by the way, in context, if they would come back to the covenant, these unknown Israelite Gentiles would come back to the covenant and then and only then he would have compassion on you.

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How many remember in Kings when it says, if my people, what's it say? Who are called by my name, humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways.

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And what's the next part? Then I will hear from heaven and I will hear your land. How many of you realize that he's only talking about one group of people in that verse, in that chapter?

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It is right here, the Northern Kingdom of Israel, who went away from their God and he says, if my people, those people, in context, the

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Northern Kingdom, that nobody knows who they are. Isn't that strange? A prophecy about people that we don't have a clue who they are.

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If any of you are driven out to the furthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will bring you.

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Then Yahweh will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers and Yahweh your

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God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength and every soul and cell in your body that you might live.

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Recognize this is the millennium that he's talking about. Right before the Messiah comes back, it's prophesied that we would come back to the covenant and then and only then would he take us to the land because his bride will be spotless and pure.

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He's not taking a spotted bride back to his chambers. He must purify us first.

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That's why they spent 40 years in the desert, ladies and gentlemen, didn't just walk. That's kind of a form of post -millennialism.

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You got to make the bride spotless first. I thought the bride of Christ is made spotless by the blood of Christ, not by us.

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Right and waltz into the promised land because they left Egypt but they still had a lot of Egypt inside of them.

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It's time that the Father begin to explain to all of us that we still got Egypt inside of us and it's time to get it out.

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So let me ask you a question. Has this happened yet? Has the northern kingdom Israel, the fullness of the nations, millions and millions of people, has he brought them back to the land yet?

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This has not happened. It's not happened. So it must be a future event.

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By New Testament times, most still knew, most of the northern kingdom knew which tribe they were from and lived across the river

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Euphrates in the myriads according to the Josephus, according to Josephus, a first century Jewish historian.

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They knew, they existed in the land. During the New Testament times when

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Yeshua was walking, when Rabbi Yeshua was walking and teaching, you had the tribe of Judah, you had the house of Judah, the

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Jewish people at the time that controlled the covenant and then you had all the out of covenant northern Israelites that were not allowed to be a part of the covenant which

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I'll explain why in just a moment. But they all lived in myriads. As they were being scattered, still millions lived right there outside of Israel.

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But over the past 2 ,000 years, they would completely lose their identity as the house of Israel, totally fulfilling this prophecy, completely fulfilling this prophecy, lost among the nations.

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Who is this, by the way? I don't have a, well, I do have a reverse button. Who is this? It's a great picture. This is a great shepherd among his sheep.

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This is our Messiah, ladies and gentlemen. This is what you don't see in the spiritual realm. He is looking for his lost sheep.

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This is all that he does every day is he is trying to gather his lost sheep and begin to bring them home which begs the question, who are the sheep?

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How many recognize it? If you've ever heard my great church audit series and I'm coming out with a new one called

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Defining Biblical Terms that if we don't define the very words of our scriptures the way that they were written, we're going to redefine them.

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Paul would be rolling over in his grave with some of the definitions we've given him, his words. We need to define the

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Bible the way it was written. How many recognize there were two things that did not exist in the first century? The first century church as it is today, the

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Christian church as it is today, and the New Testament. The New Testament did not exist. What that means is when

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Paul says in Timothy that all scripture has been given for rebuking, encouraging, great patience, and doctrine, and walking in the ways of righteousness, that that word all scripture there cannot mean the

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New Testament. Now I believe the New Testament is scripture but that's not what he was talking to. He was referring to what?

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The Tanakh, the Old Testament, what he called the Hebrew scriptures or just the scriptures.

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The value that they put on the Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, is off the charts.

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It's the only word of God that existed. So if we're going to define any Bible words, guess what, you got to get rid of the

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New Testament for a moment and define it by the only dictionary that exists at that time, which was their

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Hebrew scriptures. So we're going to find out what the word sheep means by doing just that. We're going to go back to their dictionary, the

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Old Testament, and here's what it says. Well, actually, that's not what it says. We're going to talk about a couple of New Testament verses before we go back and define it.

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John chapter 10, verse three says this. The watchman opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice.

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He calls his own sheep by his name and leads them out. Now all of you have heard these verses, but listen up. In verse four, it says, when he had brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

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We've all heard these verses. And then a few verses later, it says, therefore Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth,

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I am the gate for the sheep. So if that's the case, then we need to know, well, who are the sheep?

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Because he's the gate for them. As we continue, we'll find out the answer to that. Back in Jeremiah chapter 50, verse 17, it says,

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Israel is like scattered sheep. The lions have driven him away.

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Micah chapter two, verse 12 says, I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of the house of Israel.

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I will put them together like sheep of the fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture. They shall make a loud noise because there's so many people.

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Ezekiel chapter 11, verse 16. Is it okay if we go through a lot of scriptures? I don't like my commentary. I just like to read the scriptures.

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It's real good at explaining itself. Ezekiel 11, verse 16 says, therefore say, thus says the

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Lord God, although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among all the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary.

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The word there is tabernacle. I shall be a little tabernacle, a holy presence in their life for them in the countries where they have gone.

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This has not happened when he said this. He says, I've driven them far off among the Gentiles, but I'm gonna bring them home.

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As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he's among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.

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Who said this? Who said this statement, by the way? I didn't put the scripture here because I wanted you to put this in your mind.

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He says, as a shepherd seeks out his flock, I am going to look for my sheep. Sound familiar? But this was not the

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Messiah. This was his father in Ezekiel 34, verse 12 when he made this statement.

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So when the Messiah shows up on the scene 1 ,000 years later, what happens?

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He says the same thing. You see, when I begin to read the front of the book, I begin to go, wait a minute, this is just the

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New Testament concealed. And I begin to read the back of the book, and I went, wait a minute, this is just the

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Old Testament revealed. I'm starting to get it. I just need to read the front of the book and get the definition so I can understand when

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Jesus says, I came from my lost sheep, I'll be able to know what he's talking about. So who is the great shepherd?

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We know that it's the Messiah. So now as we move through and discover all of these things that our

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Bibles are talking about, let's find out what the characteristics that the Hebrew scriptures say of the house of Judah.

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This is astounding. When you look at the, I went through all the scriptures on the house of Judah, and these are the characteristics of our southern brother.

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Number one, they have the law of God, Genesis chapter 49, verse 10. Notice what he said there. These are the characteristics of our southern brethren.

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The reason he says that is because Jim Staley believes he's part of the northern tribes of Israel.

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Number two, they will reject the Messiah. Number three, they did not lose their identity because they came back after the captivity.

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Number four, they are called those that are near, Daniel chapter nine, verse seven. Those that are near, it says.

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These are some characteristics of the house of Ephraim, and this is where I began to go, man, this is incredible. Okay, now this is very important.

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Again, this is where this really breaks down. He says characteristics of the house of Ephraim, and then he has in parentheses on his slide,

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Israel. And I gotta say, Ephraim is only one.

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In fact, Ephraim is one of two half tribes. Ephraim is only one half a tribe of the 10 tribes of the northern kingdom.

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And so you cannot make a promise given to Ephraim and make it a general promise to the remaining 10 tribes that got carried off into captivity from the northern kingdom.

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Just like you cannot take the promise that was given to Judah that from Judah would come the king of Israel, okay, and make it a general promise to all of the tribes of Israel.

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Again, he's not really paying close attention here. This theology breaks down when you start to scrutinize it logically and biblically.

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Incredible, it's starting to paint a picture. The house of Israel, they are from the northern 10 tribes.

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Again, characteristics of the house of Ephraim, no, there's only, Ephraim is a half tribe.

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We're dispersed into all the nations after the captivity. They live among the Gentiles, Hosea 8, 8.

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They have forgotten the name of their God. And I paused. Jeremiah 23, verse 27, you can look it up on your own.

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It literally says that the northern kingdom of Israel, their shepherds would teach them a different name for God.

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We say, blessed be the name of the Lord. And over 80 % of the people singing that song can't tell us the name of their

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God. I'm here to say, that is Yahweh. We are coming back to understanding of calling upon the name of the

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Lord. There's a name for our Lord, our Adonai. He has a name, we've forgotten it.

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They are wealthy people, Genesis 49, verse 22. They do not know or understand the law of God and do not keep it.

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I knew you would not believe me on this, so this one I actually quoted. Hosea 8, verse 10, talking about the northern kingdom, says, yes, though they have hired among the nations, now

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I will gather them and they shall sorrow for little because of the burden of the king of the princes. I have written for him the great things of my

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Torah, but they were considered a strange thing. I don't know about you, when somebody started using the word

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Torah, that scared me. I instantly said, legalism and bondage, till I found out that it just means in Hebrew, instruction, and I'm in big trouble.

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We all have instructions. If you have instructions for your children, you have a home Torah, you have a house

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Torah. We've got lots of Torah in our house. Everybody has a Torah. Your spouse probably has a Torah for you.

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And I guarantee you, it's probably not written down, but you know it, right, man? They are called not my people.

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This is incredible to me. They are called not my people, sons of the living God, those that are far off, and lost sheep.

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This is what the northern kingdom is called. If we don't know this, when you get to the New Testament, we're not gonna understand 2 3rds of it.

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Because all of the definitions and phrases are found from the New Testament. Can you believe that Yahweh's so smart that he chose the smartest man outside of Yeshua the

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Messiah to go to these people? And his name was Rabbi Shaul, Paul, who sat under Gamaliel, and the only way to sit under Gamaliel is to have the entire

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Tanakh memorized word for word. So would it surprise you that God decided to choose the guy that knew the

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Scriptures so that he could absolutely debate the Scriptures and go to the out -of -covenant people and bring them home?

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It's not a surprise. The majority of them, when they regather, will come from the

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West, and this shocked me. This is what it says. You can look it up for yourself. Hosea 13, 15, they will come.

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Actually, it's Hosea 11, verse 10, and he actually noted that on the video, that it was an error.

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It's Hosea 11, verse 10. Again, the reason why this is so important, go back to what we said, or what he said early on regarding Genesis, where the blessing on Ephraim, and he said that Ephraim would become a fullness of the

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Gentiles, which is not what it says. Multitude of nations is what it says. And so he's taking now this blessing that he's twisted regarding Ephraim and then stretching it to all of the other tribes of the

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Northern Kingdom. This doesn't work. From the West. So are the 12 tribes found in the

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New Testament? Because what we see typically is we see Gentiles and we see Jews, but where are the 12 tribes? Here they are, right here.

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1 Peter 1, verse 1. You read it a million times, but you never read it this way. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, Yeshua the

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Messiah, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, to the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the

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Father. Did you hear what Peter said? To the strangers. The word in Hebrew is gois. Yeah, 1

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Peter wasn't written in Hebrew. 1 Peter was written in Greek. Let's take a look.

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So again, this is another word game that he's playing here, trying to make it sound like, oh, strangers, those are the goyim, gois.

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Uh -huh, yeah, I wonder what's going on here. 1 Peter 1,

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I'll start at verse 1, and we'll get this right. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia according to the foreknowledge of God the

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Father in the sanctification of the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for the sprinkling with his blood.

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Uh -huh, to the elect exiles of the dispersion. It's not saying the strangers scattered.

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And again, this was not written in Hebrew. It was written in Greek. So we've got a real, real problem here, what he's doing.

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By the way, parapidemos is what the Greek word is.

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It means pilgrim or refugee. And he's talking, this is written to a church. This is written to churches.

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These are Christians that he's referring to. To the Gentiles scattered throughout Pontius. And then he says to the elect.

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Two things I want to point out, the word Galatia there, we know that now the book of Galatians is written probably to who?

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Those that are scattered, the northern kingdom. There were a lot. Yeah, no, again, you're pulling a fast one.

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Peter wasn't writing to the northern kingdom. Now this is going to get weirder by the second.

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And by the way, you want to know, do you want to finally solve election, the problem of election?

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Listen to what he does with this. Northern kingdom Israelites that settled into Galatia. We know that for a fact.

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They can't possibly be pagan Gentiles because Peter tells us right here these were scattered.

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And we already know and learn that the word scattered and dispersed is coming right from the northern kingdom. Second thing

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I want to mention is this. Books and books and volumes of books have been written on predestination and the doctrine of election.

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I'm going to solve it for you in 10 seconds flat. God picked his people and elected them.

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They went away from his word. They went away from his commandments. He scattered them into all the nations and he predestined them to come back.

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So there you go. The problem of election is real simple. If you are part of the covenant promise, part of the 12 tribes of Israel, and if you're part of the northern 10 tribes and you were scattered into the nations, well, you're elect to come back.

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Wow. Done. There you go. That's the 10 second version. Now stay tuned because eventually he's going to get to what he thinks is the gospel, and it's the gospel according to this, well, bizarre narrative.

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Calvin would be proud, right? Or rolling over in his grave, one of the two. Book of James says this.

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James, a servant of God, in the very first verse he says, and the Lord Jesus Christ to the 12 tribes that were scattered abroad, greetings.

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12 tribes scattered. I thought the 10 tribes were scattered abroad. Notice here that James is making a point, and the point is that if you're a

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Christian, you're grafted into Israel. That's kind of the point.

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But we don't understand the concept of the 12 tribes, so we go right through this verse. Have you ever wondered why pagan

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Gentiles, now see, Jim Staley is kind of a weird guy. I ask a lot of questions. I remember being in school and my peers just, oh, they'd hang their head, because I was always the kid in the back row that said,

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I got another question. I got another question. They just wanted the class to be over with.

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I wanted to know the answer. Anybody out there like that? You just can't sleep at night until you find the answer, right?

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Well, it never made sense to me that all these pagan Gentiles that hated the

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Jews to begin with, and all of a sudden this Rabbi Paul walks in, and he says, hey, by the way, if you all want to get saved, we got this

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Jewish rabbi down the street, and you can accept him, bow your knee, ask him to come into your heart. I see that hand, and everybody gets saved.

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I don't know if it happened that way, but that's the way we do it today, right? I see that hand. Don't make me forget my point now, all right?

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But see, he walks in. Isn't that a little bit strange to you that all these Gentiles that are out there that are supposedly pagan

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Gentiles, by the thousands in Ephesus alone, 100 ,000 Gentiles gave their life to the

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Messiah. Does this make any logical sense? They don't even like the Jews, much less think that they're unsaved.

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They got plenty of gods. And all of a sudden, they instantly bow to this message of the gospel?

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Or was the good news a little bit different than we thought? Or was the good news a little different than we thought?

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So it has nothing to do with God causing them to repent and to trust in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins.

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No, no, no, no. The good news is different than we thought.

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Now, that's important, okay? Because the curses of Galatians 1 now come into play.

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What does Paul say in Galatians 1? Let me read it so that I don't misquote it. Galatians 1,

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I'll start at verse 6. Paul says to the churches in Galatia, I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.

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Not that there is another, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

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Anathema means damned. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be damned.

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Let him be damned. So you preach a different gospel, you're damned and you're damning your listeners too.

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So the question is, what was the gospel that Rabbi Shaul preached?

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Well, thankfully, God the Holy Spirit inspired him to write it. He wrote it and laid it out very clearly for us in 1

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Corinthians chapter 15. Let me read to you starting at verse 1. Rabbi Shaul writes, he says,

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Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel that I preached to you. There it is, the good news, the gospel that I preached to you.

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He's going to remind them of it, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word that I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

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Verse 3, For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the

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Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas and to the

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Twelve, and then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep, and then he appeared to James and the other apostles, last of all, to one untimely born, he appeared to me.

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So what was the gospel that Rabbi Shaul preached? He lays it out right here in 1

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Corinthians 15. Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried and raised again on the third day in accordance with the

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Scripture. So if you're... So here Jim Staley is basically trying to set this up here.

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How do you explain all of these pagan Gentiles believing in the

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Messiah, the Messiah, Jesus? Well, maybe the gospel was different than what we thought.

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He said it so quickly, and yet it is so, so, so dangerous where he's heading.

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We'll listen, and listen carefully from here out, because it's not too far away from where he's going to tell us what the gospel is.

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And again, spoiler alert, it's not Christ died for our sins and was raised again on the third day.

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No, that's not the gospel Jim Staley is going to preach. But you have to stay tuned. We continue.

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We'll find out. Because they weren't pagan Gentiles. So the reason why all these pagan

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Gentiles became Christians is because they weren't pagan Gentiles. They were part of the lost northern tribes of Israel.

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You see, there's two types of Gentiles that are mentioned in our Scriptures. We just have to look carefully. The first one is pagan

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Gentiles, and the second one is Israelite Gentiles. The very ones that were prophesied that would go into the nations and become the fullness of the

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Gentiles. They would walk among the Gentiles. Become the fullness of the Gentiles. Again, that's based upon a false reading of Genesis 48.

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And by the way, it was only for Ephraim. It was not for all of the ten northern tribes.

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Gentiles, they would lose their identity and then he would pull them back at the end of time. Amos chapter 9 verse 9 says,

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For look, I will command and I will sift the house of Israel among the Gentiles. That means that they are inside the

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Gentile homes. Greek Israelites. Pulling this out of the

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New Testament. John chapter 7. I never read this verse the way that Yeshua gives us verses.

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Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, I go to him who sent me. You will seek me and you will not find me.

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And where I am you cannot come. And the response that the disciples are going to give is going to astound you.

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Because they knew something that we don't. And because we don't understand it, we don't even recognize the power of it when he says it.

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He says it right here. This is their response. The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we will not find him?

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Will he go to the dispersion among the Greeks? Right there! To teach the

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Greeks! He's not talking about going to the pagan Gentiles. He's saying, Will they not go to the house of Israel?

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By the way, the Diaspora, it's a well known word. So the question in John chapter 7 verse 35.

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So Jesus says, While I'm going, you can't come. So the Jews say, Therefore they said among themselves,

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Where will this man go that we will not find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the

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Greeks? Yeah, that's right. The dispersion was among the Greeks. And will he teach the Greeks?

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The Diaspora is well known. For instance, where did Paul go when he would go on his missionary journeys?

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Where was the first place he would go when he would get to a town to preach the gospel? Answer? In the synagogues.

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Okay. Why? Well, in the synagogues, you had people who were reading the Torah. People who were reading

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Moses and the prophets and the writings, right? The Tanakh. And they were considered part of the

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Diaspora, the dispersion. So they kept their Jewish identity. So they were out there among the

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Greeks. Will he go to the Diaspora among the Greeks? And will he teach the Greeks? Yeah, this isn't saying that, oh, he's going to go to the lost northern tribes.

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That's not what they're asking here. Israel that's living amongst the Greeks, the dispersion?

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Certainly he wouldn't do that. They're unclean. Cornelius. Most of the people

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Paul was preaching to were the northern ten tribes of the house of Israel, the Israelite Gentiles. It's all through the scriptures.

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We just have to look hard enough to see it. And when you see it, you realize that it's been there all along. Paul says this in Romans 9, verse 24, even us whom he called, not of the

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Jews only, but also the Gentiles. As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people who were not my people, and her beloved who was not my beloved.

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And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people, that there they should be called the sons of the living

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God. Whenever Paul quotes a verse, how many recognize we can't take it out of context, and the greatest rabbi that ever existed outside of Yeshua, in my opinion, my humble opinion, was the apostle

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Paul. He certainly would not take it out of context. He's not pulling verses out of his head and taking them out of context.

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He knows that Hosea chapter 1 is all about the northern kingdom that would fall them ways into the Gentiles.

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And he said, and then the place that they were called out of covenant and that very place he would bring them back and call them children of the living

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God. So in other words, Peter was sent to the Jews and Paul was sent to Israel.

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Not to the Gentiles. He was sent to Israel. Romans chapter 12, for when

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Gentiles who do not have a law by nature do the things in the law, these although they not having a law are a law to themselves who show the work of the

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Torah written on their hearts. This is a Torah scholar, ladies and gentlemen. He is not a

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Christian. I hope that doesn't offend you. He was a Torah -based messianic scholar.

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People called him Christians and he welcomed that title, but the reality is that he was someone who understood the front of the book.

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He knew the mission of his Messiah. Jeremiah 31, 33, one of the most popular verses in all the

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Scripture says this, but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days. With who? House of Israel.

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I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. Look it up in Hebrew, ladies and gentlemen.

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You'll be shocked of what the word law actually says there. It is his Torah that he is putting inside of our minds and writing it on our hearts and I will be their

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God and they shall be my people. What's the direct object of that entire sentence is his law.

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Because like Bill said, if you don't have something to fall back on, you will fall back. What is this?

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It's a picture of an olive tree. This is an olive tree. If you've never seen one, this is an olive tree and a beautiful one at that.

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A couple thousand year old olive tree that you're looking at right there. The olive tree picture.

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What is the olive tree? Romans chapter 11 is all about the olive tree. It's pointing to Jeremiah chapter 11 is what he's quoting from.

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Speaking about his people Israel as a whole, all 12 tribes in that context, the Lord called your name green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit with the noise of a great tumult.

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He has kindled fire on it and his branches are broken. And guess how many pieces it was broken into?

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Two. Two pieces it was broken into. Let's continue. We'll come back to that. So now we've got this on this side.

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This is called on the left is the cultivated olive tree. And can I just say maybe on the one on the right that looks like a mohawk, can we just say maybe that's a wild olive tree?

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Two olive trees, one cultivated, one wild. In the end days, the two will become one.

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Grafted into what? Romans chapter 11 verse 24. Everybody knows this verse if you know your Bible at all. For you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary into the cultivated olive tree.

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How much more will these who are natural branches of the cultivated olive tree be grafted into their own olive tree?

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Now notice what he did there. He's not paying attention to the context of Romans 11 at all.

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And he's basically saying, oh, what we've got here in Romans 11 is one olive tree and another olive tree and voila!

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Of course, both olive trees. What are we talking about here? We're talking about well, the olive tree that got broken off, you know?

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And so what we're talking about there and there is the two different parts of Israel.

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Yeah, but if we pay attention to the three rules for sound biblical exegesis, context, context, context, this is really important.

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Rabbi Shaul wasn't a Jew. What I mean by that, he's a

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Benjamite. He's not of the tribe of Judah. Hebrews 11 .1 I ask then, has

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God rejected his people? By no means, for I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scriptures say of Elijah? How he appeals to God against Israel?

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Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have demolished your altars. And I alone am left and they seek my life.

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But what is God's reply to them? I have kept for myself 7 ,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

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So too, at the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works.

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Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. So what then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking.

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The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened. As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.

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Notice what he says there in verse 17. Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking.

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The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened. He's making a distinction between Israel and the elect here.

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Verse 11. So as did they stumble in order that they might fall by no means, rather through their trespass salvation has come to the

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Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. See, when you start paying attention to the context of some of these passages that he's quoting, the distinctions he's making between the southern kingdom and Israel, the lost tribes, doesn't make sense.

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Here, Paul is making a distinction between Israel and the Gentiles, in the same chapter that he's quoting, that supposedly proves that the northern kingdoms, the people of the northern kingdom, are being grafted back into the cultivated tree of Israel.

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That's not what Paul's argument is in Romans 11 at all, and all you need to do is read the passage in context.

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What Jim Staley is doing here, not only has he twisted God's word, created definitions of words that don't exist, changed the meanings of entire phrases in the

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Scriptures, not paid attention to the details, and basically taken the blessing given to Ephraim, and applied it to all ten northern tribes, now he's engaging in some kind of weird thing here, basically claiming oh yeah, the lost tribes of Israel, they're the ten lost tribes, and Paul was going to them, and they were the wild olive branch, yet when you read

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Romans 11 in context, Paul is making the case that basically a distinction between not the

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Jews, but Israel and the nations, and he's not using them synonymously. He's proof texting and not paying attention to context.

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Bottom line, we have a wild olive tree and a cultivated olive tree. It is impossible for these to be pagan

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Gentiles, because you can't be a pagan Gentile and be an olive tree of any kind, because the

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Bible defines the olive tree. And yet when you read Romans 11 in context, that's exactly what

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Paul's saying. Olive tree as Israel, and if that's the case, then the wild olive tree, which is quoted from the

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Tanakh, as the Again, read Romans 11 in context and you'll see that Paul's making a distinction between the

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Gentiles and Israel. The northern kingdom would become wild. What it says in these aren't pagan

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Gentiles that Paul is bringing in. These are Israelite, scattered, dispersed sheep that the

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Messiah is looking for. Back to Romans chapter 11, for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion.

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Mystery, by the way, that blindness in part has happened to Israel, speaking of the local

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Israel that day in context, the only Israel that existed, the house of Judah, until the fullness... No, not the house of Judah.

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Remember, Rabbi Shaul, he's of the house of Benjamin.

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Of the Gentiles comes in... Oh, and by the way, there's a lot of people to this day who know that they are of the tribe of Levi.

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It's absolutely true. If you know Hebrew, then you know this fact. The Hebrew word for priest is

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Kohen. And if you know any Jewish people who are named last name

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Kohen, they're Levites. We've got people... There are people who, to this day, know that they are of the house of Judah, house of Benjamin, and the house of Levi.

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I told you I would come back to this verse. Do you think that Paul is just making this up, stroke of genius?

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He's quoting from the Tanakh, the blessing that went on Ephraim, the fullness of...

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Okay, I've got to back this up in order to regain the context. He is making the claim that in Romans chapter 11, when

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Paul talks about the fullness of the Gentiles, that he's referencing the blessing of Ephraim.

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Again, that doesn't make any sense. Ephraim's blessing fell on Ephraim, not the ten northern tribes.

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So he is basically taking a specific blessing given to Ephraim and stretching it to the ten northern tribes, and then making the claim, because remember, he changed the wording from that blessing, and then making the claim here that Paul here is referencing that blessing that was given to Ephraim when he talked about the fullness of the

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Gentiles, but it doesn't say fullness of the Gentiles. It said multitude of nations.

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Mystery, by the way. Blindness, in part, has happened to Israel, speaking of the local

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Israel that day in context, the only Israel that existed, the house of Judah, until the fullness of the

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Gentiles comes in. I told you I would come back to this verse. Do you think that Paul is just making this up?

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Stroke of genius. The verse, by the way, is Romans 11, 25. He's quoting from the

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Tanakh. No, he's not. The blessing that went on Ephraim. No, he's not, because that blessing only applied to Ephraim.

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The fullness of the house of the fullness of the Gentiles. This is what he's talking about.

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No, it isn't. The northern kingdom coming home. Until they all come home.

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No, that's not what is being discussed there. This is what he's talking about. And the only way you can come to that conclusion is through the twisting that you've engaged in that I've documented the entire time.

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Continuing, and so all Israel will be saved. How many, like me, have always thought at some point all those

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Jewish people will finally understand, and they'll all get saved? Because we've defined

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Israel as the Jewish people. But the reality is, is that it's all Israel, ladies and gentlemen.

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All 12 tribes will eventually come back. That's what he's talking about. When the fullness of the

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Gentiles comes home, all Israel will be saved. The deliverer will come out of Zion, and he'll turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

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Right there, we know he's talking about the house of Israel, because that's what they were called. For this is my covenant with them, when

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I take away their sins. What's the word sin? How many know what the word sin means?

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1 John chapter 3, verse 4 says this, and sin is the transgression of the law.

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We have a problem if we get rid of the law. That everyone does whatever's right in their own eyes.

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And that's where we're at today. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 11, verse 24 says, therefore remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh, out of covenant, that's what it means.

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No, it doesn't. Who were called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision, the southern kingdom, made in the hands by the flesh, that at that time you were without the

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Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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Watch this. But now in the Messiah Yeshua, you were once far off, have now been brought near by the blood of the

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Messiah, for he himself is our peace, who has made both one. What's he talking about? The one new man that everyone's been trying to figure out in theological books for thousands of years have been trying to figure out what's the one new man?

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The mistake that we make in our theologian seminary societies is we don't read the front of the book.

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Yeah, I read it in Hebrew. I myself, I'm included in that.

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When he makes both one, the two houses of Israel is clearly what he's talking about. Broken down the middle.

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No, again, Christ died for the sins of the world.

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We're talking about Jew and Gentile as two completely different things here.

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Jew and Gentile, Israel and Gentile, in the sense of this would be people who are descended of Abraham versus those who are not.

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Christ died for the sins of the world. That's what he's talking about.

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The two becoming one. It's for all nations. What did Jesus say to do? Go and make disciples of all nations.

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Baptizing, right? Teaching. All that I have commanded. Go proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

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That would be not just people who are descendants of Abraham, but people who are not descendants of Abraham.

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Now we basically have...this theology, by the way, creates the false impression that, well, you're not elect unless you're part of the original twelve tribes.

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Now I should note something here. Jim Staley denies that that's what he's teaching, but that's really the effect of what he's teaching.

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Separation. Watch this. One of the most misinterpreted verses in all Scripture. Tomorrow in my breakout,

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I'm going through the top ten. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, the hatred, that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances so as to create himself one new man from the two, thus making beast.

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Jim, right here it says he did away with all the commandments. Are you sure that's what he's talking about?

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Or have you been told that that's what he's been talking about? Because you grew up and believed that the law of God has done away with.

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Again, listen to Michael Horton's lecture, distinguishing between the different covenants. It will make a huge difference.

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What I said, if you do away with the law, you do away with the definition of sin. And how can God a holy and just God throw anyone into the lake of fire on judgment day from breaking something that doesn't exist?

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You're right. The purpose of the law is to show us that we're sinners. That's what Romans says. That's not fair at all.

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Looking very carefully, and actually the Aramaic is an amazing translation for this particular verse because what he does away with is our tickets.

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The bonds of sin. The Aramaic translation. Paul wrote this in Greek.

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The ordinances that are written against you. When you sin, there's a book of works, the

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Bible says, and it goes in there on judgment day. All those tickets. When you got a ticket for speeding, some of you on the way here maybe, those tickets got nailed to the cross and done away with.

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That's the curse that he did away with, amen? He became the curse for us. And he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, therefore putting death to the hatred.

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The Jews, the southern kingdom, hated the northern kingdom because they were out of covenant. They could not come and be part of what the

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Jews were doing during that time. They could not. That's why the Gentiles had their middle wall of partition. A three foot wall.

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They kept the Gentiles back. They had to go through an entire conversion process in Judaism to even come into the temple.

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That's what Cornelius was in the process of doing in Acts chapter 10. Yeah, I agree.

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Cornelius was a God -fearer. He was converting to Judaism. Ephesians 2, 17, and he came to preach to those who were far off and to those who were near.

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Anybody remember where we just heard that verse from? Sound familiar? How about Isaiah 57?

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We'll quote it again. I've seen his ways and will heal him. I will leave him also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

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I create the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near. Context suggesting northern kingdom far off.

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Judah came back. Yahweh has a plan for both kingdoms. Back to Ephesians chapter 2.

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We're going to wrap this up here pretty soon. For through him we both have access by one spirit to the Father. Whom?

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The kingdom of God, by the way. So who has access? Only those who are either of the northern or the southern kingdom, right?

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Kingdom of Yahweh. Remember the disciples said, are you here to restore the kingdom? What are they talking about? The northern kingdom.

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What? So the disciples were asking Jesus, are you going to restore the kingdom now?

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And they were thinking the northern kingdom? That is not correct at all.

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Oh man, hang on a second here. Let me pull this up. Acts chapter 1.

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Acts chapter 1. Verse 6. So when they had come together, they asked him,

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Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them, it's not for you to know the times or the seasons that the

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Father has fixed by his own authority. They're not asking Jesus if he's going to restore the northern kingdom.

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Okay. Was Israel where they lived? By the way, many of the disciples were from where?

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Galilee, right? They were Galileans. What part geographically in the nation of Israel is that, northern or southern kingdom?

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Answer, it's northern kingdom territorially. But when he's saying restore the kingdom to Israel, they're not asking, oh, are you going to restore the lost ten tribes,

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Jesus? That's not what they're asking. They're asking if Jesus is going to put the Jews back in control of their own land.

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Okay? Because who was in charge? The Romans were. Good night.

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This just is so bad. It's absolutely mind boggling to me that anybody is falling for this.

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The only way the Israelites knew, the Jewish people knew they would ever defeat their enemies is that the northern kingdom came home. Why? Because there was far more of them than there was in the south.

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Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners. Talking about the northern kingdom, these Gentiles. You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens.

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Now, he keeps reading in northern kingdom into the book of Ephesians, and that's not what Paul has in mind.

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With the saints and members of the household of God. Now, I always took that as a pagan

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Gentile. I'm a foreigner. I'm out of covenant. Nope. In context, as we just displayed, No, you didn't display it, because your entire idea is based upon out of context proof texting, changing of definitions of words, and not paying attention to context, and then stretching the blessing of Ephraim to all of the northern tribes.

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Talking specifically to the northern kingdom, the scattered sheep that you were once out of covenant, and now you are going to be allowed to come back in covenant.

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And when I tell you what, for those of you that don't know the Torah, when you find out why, it's going to blow your mind of why

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Yeshua really came. Who did the Messiah come for? Yeshua says this,

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John chapter 10 verse 16, and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold, talking about the house of Judah, them also

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I must bring, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

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He goes on to say this in John 11, 51, Now this he, Caiaphas, the high priest, did not say on his own authority, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation, the house of Judah, but not for that nation only, but also he would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

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The mission, the message, the purpose of the Messiah from the very beginning, from the high priest under the inspiration of the

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Holy Spirit, to Yeshua himself, says this, I was only sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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Okay, Matthew 15, 24, out of context, Matthew 15, 24, let's read this in context.

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We'll start at verse 21, Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

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And behold, a Canaanite woman from the region came out and was crying, Have mercy on me,

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O Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. But he did not answer her a word, and his disciples came and begged him, saying,

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Send her away. She is crying out after us. He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but she came and knelt before him, saying,

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Lord, help me. And he answered, It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

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And she said, Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.

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Then Jesus answered her, O woman, great is your faith. Be it done for you as you desire. And her daughter was healed instantly.

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Hmm. Yeah, if Jesus only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, notice that he's misapplying this now.

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Why did he heal her daughter? Hmm? Why did

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Jesus die for the sins of the world? That's what Scripture says. If he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, why did

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Jesus die for the sins of the world? 1 John chapter 2, verse 1. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.

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But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, the righteous one.

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He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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So what is it meant when Jesus says, I came only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Define Israel in that sentence.

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Yeah, Israel here is not just being referred to only those people who are, well, you know, genetically related to somebody within the 12 tribes of Israel.

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That's why he came. He came for his sheep. The sheep are those that are scattered.

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So why did the Messiah really come? Jim, are you really saying that Jesus only came for the... I know some of you are thinking that right now.

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So I won't even ask you to raise your hand. But we'll walk through this. Watch this as it comes together, as we finish.

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Are you ready Are you ready for the greatest love story that's ever existed in all man time?

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Make Shakespeare look. Now, I'm going to point this out here. I'm going to demonstrate that this so -called greatest love story of all time, the way he tells it, there's a major flaw in it, and it has to do with his false

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Christology. The greatest love story is this. First of all, Jeremiah chapter 3, verse 8,

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Then I saw for all the causes which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I put her away and gave her a certificate of divorce.

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Remember that prophecy that I... Question. Jeremiah the prophet, was he a prophet sent to the northern kingdom of Israel, or was he a prophet sent to the southern kingdom to call them to repentance, or God would send them into exile?

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Northern or southern? Answer? Southern. Jeremiah was not a prophet sent to the northern kingdom.

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The northern kingdom was long gone by the time Jeremiah prophesied.

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He said, Jordan River, you don't obey me, I'm going to scatter you all the nations. Well, before he scattered them, according to Jeremiah chapter 3, verse 8, he had enough, and he divorced them.

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Now, you may say, like I did, well, that's not a big deal. Divorce, get remarried, not a big deal. Big deal.

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Big deal. Why? Because this is a major problem that it even says the angels longed in to find out how he was going to solve this mystery.

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This mystery is how can Yahweh divorce his bride and ask her to come back?

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Because of this verse, Jeremiah 3 .1, they say, if a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return her again?

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Will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have prostituted with many companions, yet return to me, says

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Yahweh. Now, this is when Yahweh says, hey, I'm going to divorce you, but return to me and I'll accept you back.

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I'll forgive you. Greatest grace story in the Old Testament. And all the angels go, wait a minute, who wants to tell

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Yahweh that he can't do that because of this next verse that he wrote? You see,

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Yahweh wrote a verse in the Torah that said if you divorce your wife and she marries another man, you can never marry her back.

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Ever. So imagine the shock and the horror of all the angels and the hosts of heaven when they're going, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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How is that going to happen? What is the mystery? And this is where the prophets say they long to find out how this was going to be solved, but Rabbi Paul put it all together.

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Watch this. You ever wondered why Romans chapter 7, the do, I do, don't want to do verse, chapter, starts out very strange?

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Or do you not know, brethren, for I speak to those who know the law? Which, by the way, that means if we don't know the Torah, you're not allowed to read

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Romans chapter 7. You laugh, but that's what he said. He says, I'm only talking to those who know the

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Torah because what I'm getting ready to say is found right in the pages of the Torah, and if you don't understand the law of God, you will completely miss everything that I'm getting ready to say.

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And he says this, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives, for the woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband.

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Referring to this Levitical law. As long as he lives, but if the husband dies, she's released from the law of her husband.

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In other words, she won't be called an adulteress. Let's continue. So then if while her husband lives, she marries another, and she'll be called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she's free from that law.

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Not the entire law, that law, so that she's not, no longer an adulteress, though she has married another man.

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Therefore, listen what Paul says, everything I just said was here for, therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law.

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Who's he talking about? He's talking to the Israelite Gentiles. We know that through the context. He says, yeah, notice verse 4, therefore, you've become dead to the law.

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Paul's saying in Romans 7, you've become dead to the Torah, through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another.

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You've become dead to the Torah, through the body of the Messiah, that you may be married to another, in particular that law, he already defined it, you become dead to the law.

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No, that's the whole law. That law, it does not apply to you anymore, you are no longer an adulteress, that you may become married to another, to him who was raised from the dead.

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This is all going to become, ladies and gentlemen, the bridegroom died for his bride. Now, this has got to be really important, and listen carefully to his words.

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He's saying, the bridegroom died for his bride. Now, that being the case, since God, Yahweh Elohim, he is the one who issued the certificate of divorce to his people, by the way, through the prophet

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Jeremiah to the southern kingdom, this would be Judah and Benjamin, not the northern kingdom, think about it.

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So, he's the one who issued the certificate of divorce, who has to be the one to die?

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It has to be Yahweh who dies. If Yahweh doesn't die, well then, according to the argument here that Jim Staley is putting forward, then he can't remarry his bride.

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Listen carefully to the words he uses, though. Give him a round of applause.

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Thank you, Father. Think about this for a second. He has a bride.

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It's all 12 tribes. It gets split into two. He has a problem because he divorces his bride.

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He scatters them into all the nations. He told them to be a light to the nations. They wouldn't do it. All 12 of them got all messed up, and it was all a secret meeting of the saints club.

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They weren't a light to the nations, so he said, I've got a master genius plan because I'm God. I'm going to divorce you.

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I'm going to scatter you into all the nations, and then you're going to get saved by this guy named Yeshua. You're not even going to know who you are.

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You're going to get saved by this guy named Yeshua. What?

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You're going to be a light to the nations anyway. At the end of the time, I'm going to call out your name.

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My Messiah is going to rise from the dead. My Messiah is going to rise from the dead. Not I'm going to rise from the dead because, remember,

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Jesus is God in human flesh. Isn't that what Thomas says to Jesus?

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Jesus says, stop doubting and believe. Touch my hands, my side. What does Thomas say?

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My Lord and my God. Notice the words that Jim is using here.

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He's not saying that Yahweh died for his bride. He's saying this

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Messiah died for Yahweh's bride. Uh -huh. There's a reason for this because the

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Hebrew roots movement doesn't believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. Free you from the law of adultery and bring you home.

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That is the mystery that was solved in the New Testament. Hallelujah! Yeah, no.

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The mystery that's revealed in the New Testament is all about God in human flesh, Christ. Read Paul's writings.

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He talks about that mystery constantly. ...anyway. At the end of the time,

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I'm going to call out your name. My Messiah is going to rise from the dead, free you from the law of adultery, and bring you home.

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That is the mystery that was solved in the New Testament. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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Yeah, that's somebody blowing the shofar there. Now, here comes his definition of the gospel.

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Listen carefully. What we should be listening for is the gospel is Christ died for our sins and rose again on the third day, and the imperatives of the gospel are repent and believe the good news.

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That's what the Bible teaches. Let's see what his new gospel is. So does it surprise you that a hundred thousand people in Ephesus alone said when

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Paul came in and said, guys, I've got some good news. Here's the good news. I got some good news.

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What's the gospel? You can come back to the covenant. The good news is you can come back to the covenant.

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There isn't a single passage in the New Testament where Paul says to any crowd, you can come back to the covenant.

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Because the Messiah paid for your sin, freed you from the law of adultery, and all you have to do is follow him.

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That's a different gospel. That's a completely different gospel.

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You can come back to the covenant. Christ paid for your sins and died to break the law of adultery.

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Just follow him. Yep, different gospel altogether. And they came by the thousands.

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And yet there isn't a single passage in the book of Acts where Paul says, come back to the covenant. Because they knew they were out of covenant.

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No, they were Gentiles. Now a bunch of Gentiles come back to the covenant. It's a scary thing. And that's a whole other story because we messed it all up from everything after that.

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But Yahweh is having his way and he's beginning to purify us and teach us what the covenant that we came back to is all about.

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Now this is important. The covenant that we came back to? Now, this is where yesterday's lecture gets to be plugged in.

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The covenant we came back to? No, no, no, no. It's very clear in the book of Hebrews that Christ has established a new covenant.

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The Mosaic covenant, we're not under that covenant. Okay? So go back and listen to yesterday's program if you haven't already listened to it regarding the distinctions of the covenant.

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And here what he's doing is conflating the Old Testament covenants into one and basically saying that the call of the gospel, if you happen to be part of the lost tribes of Israel, is come back to the covenant.

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No. Christ said, this is my blood of the new covenant.

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There's a new covenant. The old covenant is gone. What this new covenant is all about.

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So apparently coming back to the old covenant is what the new covenant's all about.

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Conflating of covenants. Anybody ever heard of the marriage supper of the Lamb? It should take on a whole new meaning, folks.

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The marriage supper of the Lamb. This is a remarriage supper. All about a wedding.

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All about a husband. All about a wife. If you haven't figured it out by now, you are

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Israel. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, what if I'm not genetically related? I mean, yeah,

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I know you go on later in other teachings to explain to people that, oh, they can be grafted in.

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Uh -huh. Yeah, right. So you end up falling back on what Paul's teaching really is.

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But this is really weird, folks. There's the shofar again.

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Now you may have walked in here thinking, you know, no, I'm a Baptist. I'm a Lutheran. I'm a non -denomination that doesn't have a denomination.

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But my Bible says you are a Hebrew. If you come to know the Messiah, you've crossed over from death to life.

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If you're anything, you're a Hebrew Christian like I am. Get used to it. Are you saying,

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Jim, the only people that can be saved are the only descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel? Absolutely not.

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Yet you made the distinction. This is where he's engaging in doublespeak.

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He makes the distinction, oh, it wasn't the pagan Gentiles in Paul's time who became

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Christians. No, why would they want to do that? Da -da -da -da -da. Okay. That's the implication of what he's saying.

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Now he's turning around and saying, well, no, that's not what I'm saying. How many remember when they left

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Egypt, what happened? Some of the Egyptians came along with them, the smart ones. Moses came up to God and said,

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God, we've got a problem. All these Egyptians are following us, and they're not your people. What are we going to do? Yahweh solved the problem.

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He wrote this. He said, listen, one law shall be to him who is homeborn and to the stranger who sojourns among you.

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If they will circumcise their hearts and circumcise their flesh and follow my Passover and my commandments, there will be one people in my hand.

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Let them join. And that's the first grafting in that happened in your Bible. Almost finished.

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One of the most amazing quotes that you have ever seen, that I have ever seen, you're getting ready to hear if you haven't heard it already.

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Professor Cal Totten, 1851 to 1908 at Yale University said this when he discovered what

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I'm explaining to you this evening. For example, I can never be too thankful to the Almighty that in my youth he used the late

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Professor Wilson to show me the difference between the two houses. The very understanding of this difference is the key by which almost the entire

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Bible becomes intelligible. And I cannot state too strongly that the man who has not yet seen that the house of Israel, of the

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Scriptures, is totally distinct from the Jewish people, is yet in the very infancy, the mere alphabet of biblical study.

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And that to this day, the meaning of seven -eighth of the Bible is shut to his understanding.

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And I don't know about you, but when you begin to read your Bible now, some of you will go home, maybe back to your room tonight, and you'll be going through the

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Scriptures because light bulbs are popping all over you right now. Your life is going to change when you find out who you really are.

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Let me ask you a question. Is it really all about Israel, the chosen people? Is it really all about the 12 tribes?

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How about 12 tribes with one king, 12 disciples with one king, 12 baskets left over full of bread?

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Jesus says in Matthew 19, 28, And so Yeshua said to them, Surely I say to you, that in the restoration of the house of Israel, when the

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Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you will have followed Me and also will sit on 12 thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

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Let's continue. Yeshua heals a girl that's 12 years old by accident, I'm sure. He starts teaching in the temple when he was what?

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12. He says that there are 12 hours during each day, 12 months in a year. He says that there are revelations, there's 12 ,000 from each tribe that are sealed, 12 angels, 24 elders, two from each tribe, 12 gates with 12 pearls, 12 constellations, a tree of life that produces 12 fruits for each of the 12 months of the year.

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Folks, it's everywhere. The story of the 12 spies, the story of Joseph, the story of Ruth, Naomi, Boaz, it's all about the two houses of Israel.

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How many plagues were there in Egypt? Gotcha. We're so gullible.

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I'm just telling you. You've been sitting in church your whole life, we've been sitting everywhere your whole life, we're so gullible.

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I love it. We're sheep. You know sheep are the dumbest animals on planet Earth? According to all the scientists.

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They never met my neighbor's dog, but anyway. The two witnesses and revelation, right?

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Two houses. The giving of the Ten Commandments. How many tablets were they put on? Ten commandments on two stones.

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You don't think he could have fit them on one stone? He could have put them on an iPad if he wanted to. It's all prophecy, ladies and gentlemen.

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How many times were they forgiven? The parable of the prodigal son.

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How many sons were there? Two. How many went astray? One. What happened at the end? It came back. The ten lepers that were healed.

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The two sticks of Ezekiel 37. The one new man in Ephesians. Two folks I can sit here for four hours and go through all the

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Bible. It's all about Israel. The best example is this. Cheryl, can you come on stage for just a second?

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I want you guys to see this because this is by far Cheryl's wife. She's going to come up on stage and stand behind him.

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The best example that you will ever see about what your Bible is all about. This is my better half.

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Actually, she's the whole thing. My wife Cheryl. Stand behind me.

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This is the Garden of Eden, ladies and gentlemen. Adam and Eve together. One house.

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This is what it was supposed to be like. Have you ever wondered why he pulled Eve out of Adam?

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He pulled Eve out of Adam, prophesying that at some point in time

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Israel would be split into two nations. But if they would come back together and join...

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I thought it was because Christ creates his church out of his own body.

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And the church is his bride. As one flesh, they would be one again, ladies and gentlemen.

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This is Israel. Notice the emphasis is on us, really not

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Christ. Right here in the Garden. It's everywhere, thank you.

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Everywhere that you look, he's talking about the house of Israel. Everywhere that you see it, all we have to do is have eyes to see and ears to hear.

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Stand to your feet, please. Folks, we have one

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God. His name is Yahweh. We have one covenant. One law.

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We have one covenant. Right. That's the new covenant.

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One Messiah. His name is Yeshua. And we have one people, and that's you.

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Your name is Israel. Don't forget it. That's who you are.

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Say it with me. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberties and justice for all.

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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Alright, so there, again, when you talk to people who are in the

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Hebrew Roots movement, this teaching, even though not this particular video, this teaching oftentimes is the doorway in.

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And it is fraught with biblical twisting, changing of meaning of words, and stretching things beyond the bonds of credulity, and if you bite on this, you end up getting hooked with a bad hook, by the way, folks, because it's not too long after this that it's all about you being

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Torah observant. That means you gotta pay attention to those dietary laws, you better be wearing those tzitzith, and, well, you gotta follow and observe those

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Jewish feast days and holidays and all that kind of stuff. And in part, this is, how is this possible?

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Conflating of the covenants, not recognizing the new covenant for what it is, basically disregarding

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Hebrews and the entire language of the new covenant, even the prophecy of Jeremiah, and then of course we can go into the stretching of Gentiles does not mean out of covenant, that doesn't mean that.

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Genesis 48, talking about the blessing of Ephraim, doesn't get stretched to every member of the every other tribe of the 12 tribes of Israel, or even just 10 of them.

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Nope, that's a complete twist. And I mean, over and over and over and over again, we've got this

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Hebrew roots narrative that is very seductive and requires you to know your

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Old Testament well in order to see the deception that's going on.

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But more importantly, you need to know your New Testament well as well in order to not be schnookered by this false biblical teaching that is very seductive and very appealing especially in a church world where, you know, the average seeker -driven pastor is basically just dribbling out a few verses of Scripture out of context in a very entertaining way

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Sunday after Sunday. And people who want to go deeper, this is providing them meat and sustenance and the ability to feel like they're really understanding

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God's Word with some depth and some meaning, and in fact they're not. They're being deceived, being taught a false gospel, not the truth regarding the covenant, the new covenant, and basically being put under the bondage and yoke of the law again.

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Read the book of Galatians and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Very, very dangerous movement based out of the chute, the doorway in just chock full of bad, bad, bad

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