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Prophecy Watch: 19th Jan 2012: Evangelical Messianic and Christian Zionist Delusions Concerning the State of Israel
Shalom In Yahushua, The Watchmen from Israel
Last week I included a discussion article which was recently published that outlined why many Messianics who have been attempting to “return to the land” of Israel in the past few years have been subsequently denying their faith in Yahushua Messiah and converting to Judaism under pressure from Rabbinical orthodox anti-missionaries.
The article proposes that the reason this phenomena is happening is because of what it defines as “Ultra-semitism" which is presented as an unrealistic infatuation with brother Judah, constructed from an inadequate understanding of the scriptures and the Talmudic traditions and also the motivation to do anything necessary to “remain in this land”. I would have to agree with both reasons which can be summarized as reasons of 1) ignorance and 2) self – motivations.
However the definition in the report does not address the real underlying eschatological issues. To understand this we must consider the following two areas of concern :
1. There is no scriptural declaration that Ephraim must take matters into His own hands in the last days.
While the prophetic scriptures clearly do foretell a restoration of the two kingdoms of Jacob (Joseph / Ephraim and Judah – Ezekiel 37, Romans 11) under a new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-33), there is no declaration anywhere to be found in scripture that this great return will happen in the last days by any organized religion or people of either Ephraim and the lost tribes, or of Judah (or any self-proclaimed “representatives”) practically taking leadership in these prophetic proclamations or taking any matters into their own hands and pre-empting their own return and reunification of the House of Jacob by their own initiatives, negotiations, efforts or resources.
To the contrary, the Law and the Prophets consistently delineate this last days restoration of the 12 tribes to be specifically a Messianic mandate that can only be brought about by the one true Messiah Himself, who is Yahushua. The scripture clearly proclaims that this will be undertaken by YHVH Himself because the return from exile (of both houses of Israel) requires a special Divine cleansing from iniquity of all YHVH’s people (all twelve tribes and ingrafted strangers) for the exile. It proclaims further that this will only be accomplished in its appointed time by YHVH Himself (see Ezekiel 36: 22-36). In this portion of scripture a Divine cleansing is highlighted several times which must preceed before YHVH gathers and restores His nation into the promised land. This sequential theme is also stressed very clearly in Ezekiel 20:33-44, which requires the purging out of “rebels” and causing us all to “pass under the rod” in the last days which is an act which cannot be accomplished by any man, men or religious institutionalism, but only by YHVH Yahushua Himself, the Redeemer of Israel (see Isaiah 49:6).
YHVH declares that His purging and cleansing of His people in the “wilderness of the people” (not the modern State of Israel) is necessary for two declared reasons – 1) the sanctification of His own Name (Ezekiel 36:22) and 2) so that the surrounding nations will know that He is YHVH and He is doing this restoration (Ezekiel 36:36).
Ezekiel 36: 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I YHVH build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I YHVH have spoken it, and I will do it.
So the prophetic scriptures indicate that both houses must be cleansed from all iniquity of the exile (religious idolatry) outside the Promised Land and immediately before YHVH brings His people back into the promised land. This is shown to us by prophetic shadow type in the historical record of the Book of Deuteronomy where the whole House of Israel (the second generation) crossed into the land together and in order behind the Ark of the covenant (the presence of YHVH) and behind Joshua son of Nun (a shadow type of Yahushua Messiah), who was specifically commissioned with YHVH’s authority to lead the people into His (not our) promised land.
2. That our hearts are able to deceive us with the most sincerest of self-justifications and constructed theologies /eschatologies.
The prophet Jeremiah made plain sense of this by revealing the true condition of the fallen heart of man in a simple statement:
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Thus it is incumbent upon all of us in these last days to sincerely and honestly search ourselves continually with the scriptures as whether we are in truth “fearing YHVH” or whether we have taken unto ourselves our own religious worldviews, or our own private interpretation of biblical prophecy, and consequently are caught up doing own self-justifying. This is precisely why the Apostle exhorted the brethren to:
Philippians 2:12 ¶ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
The Apostle is teaching that even with the best intention our heart, our hidden motives can deceive us into rationalizing how we may be thinking we are “fearing YHVH” when in fact we are “not fearing YHVH”. We have to do self examination under the searchlight of Abba’s Spirit (note how David called on YHVH to search his heart for any transgression) because we are told that the deception from false teachers that abound in the last days is so great that if it were possible even the very elect would be deceived (Mark 13:22).
The Biblical Testimony When Historical Israel “Added To” Or “Took Away” From The Word Of YHVH
Historically we see that when Israel added to, or took away from, YHVH’s Word, they began with sincerest intentions, but as they added their interpretation to how YHVH should be followed they developed sophisticated replacement theologies and their own eschatologies (private interpretation of Divine prophecy) that served to justify their preferred theological positions that they were indeed “fearing YHVH”.
However from YHVH’s perspective, because they had changed His injunctions, and were not following His commandments, they are biblicallt defined as “not fearing YHVH”, but instead serving their own heretical religious worldviews. In other words, in the end they had a “constructed theology” or a “constructed eschatology” (an interpretation of prophecy) which was not biblical and which then rationally deceived them into believing that in fact they did “fear YHVH” whilst in truth they were increasingly moving at variance to YHVH.
An example of this juxtaposition of people seeing themselves as “fearing YHVH” whilst in actual truth they are “not fearing YHVH” is recorded in 2 Kings 17:33-34 where in two consecutive verses we read that they (Israel) “feared” YHVH, but in the next verse they are described by YHVH as “not fearing” YHVH”.
2 Kings 17: 33 They feared YHVH, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not YHVH, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which YHVH commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
Where ignorance is truly innocent but is sincerely misplaced because of lack of teaching and understanding, there are many examples in the scriptures how YHVH, through His grace, sends shepherds to teach correction to bring His people to conviction, repentance and proper understanding. This possibility of falling into a place of “not fearing YHVH” is why the Apostles instruct us to continually re-examine our walk before Him in the light of the full Word of YHVH, should there be any error in us and especially as we see the “day approaching” (Phil 2:12).
However, where this ignorance is willful and deliberate due to other hidden motives in our hearts which we will stubbornly not admit, then we are told by YHVH that a time will come when we will have to “dance by the sparks of our own fire” - in other words the time will come when we will be practically caught by our own theologies and then we will experience a time which will reveal if our own created theologies and escatologies will deliver us from evil and when they do not, but instead bring about our destruction and cursing, then we will know we have been in rebellion and error and we will then “lie down in sorrow”.This prophecy is directed by YHVH to His own people, as written in Isaiah 50:
Isa 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
When Sincere Believers Give Up Their Faith In Yahushua And Convert To Judaism Because Of Motives Of “Ultra-Semitism” And Wanting To Live “In The Land”
The Apostles declare that once a person is saved by true faith in Yahushua Messiah as one’s Divine door to salvation and then one subsequently renounces that faith, thereby rejecting Yahushua’s Atonement sacrifice as no longer being valid and then converts to another religion such as Rabbinical Judaism, there is no way back to faith in Messiah Yahushua since He cannot be put on the tree as a sacrificial offering for the person a second time. The Apostles declare that in this case the door of salvation cannot be reopened, for it amounts to Esau dispising his birthright. The person has effectively crossed their own name out of the Divine book of eternal salvation and disavowed his inheritance. This is a very severe and tragic situation and amounts to nothing less than spiritual suicide. We see this teaching in the book of Hebrews (Hebrews 6:4-6)
Hebrews 6: 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Set Apart Spirit,
5 And have tasted the good word of Elohiym, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Elohiym afresh, and put him to an open shame.
When we examine why Messianic believers who have attempted to “return to the land” as part of the retrun of the lost tribes of Israel, and have lost their faith in Yahushua the article in question implies that this happened through ignorance and because they believed that this is required of them before Judah will “accept” them and allow them to stay “in the land”. Consequently, we find we are dealing with a “bad tree” that cannot bring forth good fruit. We find that they have been influenced by very clever theological and eschatological arguments by certain sects of “anti-missionary” Rabbinics, who are violently against the Name of Yahushua (thereby revealing much concerning to their real biblical identity) and who are attempting to force all non-Jewish religious people to either undertake 1) the Noahide vows (a Talmudic theology) or 2) to convert to Rabinnical Judaism.
We have to conclude that this destruction of once faithful individuals has come about because they have a theology or eschatology that is in error, and that Abba is revealing to those of us who are preparing for the great return and the second exodus, that the eschatology that has been proclaimed amongst Messianics that Ephraim must now physically return “to the land” and try to reside in the state of Israel is in fact a false “fire” that has been kindled by falser teachers. Clearly if YHVH has already declared that HE (Himself) will bring His people back to sanctify His own Name, He means just that, and no human movement or teaching is going to be permitted to overtake His glory by overruling and reinterpreting His prophetic proclamation that there will be a Divine lawful process by which the whole House of Israel will be brought back from the global exile, back into the promised land of Eden in the millennial reign.
It is very clear from the prophetic scripture that YHVH is firstly going to place His people into His Divine protection during the time of tribulation, where His people are already scattered among the nations before He is going to then resolve His controversy with a) the House of Judah and b) the surrounding nations over who owns the land (of course the scriopture informs us that the land belongs to no one but Himself!) and b) who are His righteous remnant that He redeems (He decides this one too of course!). To claim therefore that one is “Messianic centered” and then proceed to work out an eschatology of self redemption (redemption refers to the return from the exile, which is different to salvation) that then permits one to go ahead of Messiah’s own mandate, is a very very dangerous place to be.
The Proclamations of Yahushua to Flee Judea in the last days
Even from the proclamations of Messiah Yahushua Himself, it is clear that great tribulation is coming to the land of Judea and Jerusalem in the soon-coming “last” days which are now immediately ahead of us (possibly even beginning later in this year of 2012). Yahushua Himself warned His people that at that time His people must get out and flee from Judea (Mark 13:14-23). So even from Yahushua’s own instruction, we find a contradiction to the contemporary eschatology of those Messianics who believe that in the last days they should go and live “in the land” thereby initiating of pre-empting the prophesied unification of the Houses of Judah and Ephraim. Those teachers who have taught such eschatological doctrines may well be held accountable for the faithful lives that have since been needlessly lost through their influence, according to Yahushua’s words in Luke 17 and the offending of his “little ones”.
Given the biblical prophesies, the only true reason a believer in Yahushua might be called to the contemporary State of Israel is because one is called to witness to the truth of the full Word of YHVH Messiah and to call on those who would hear in Israel to come to repentance before the coming restoration of the Kingdom of YHVH. Any other reason related to being a part of the eschatological unification of Ephraim and Judah is without biblical foundation (i.e. false) and premature (the timing of the restoration to the land is not yet) , and is akin to “kindling” one’s own theological “fire”.
The Great Deception In Christian Zionism and Messianics Concerning the Modern State of Israel …even most of religious Judaism believes Judah should not be returning to the modern State of Israel!
Whilst sincerely motivated, much of the escatologies of both Christian Zionists and Messianics concerning the “sacred” religious position of the modern State of Israel in the last days reveals a tragedy of ignorance – an ignorance is not shared even by the majority of religious Judah.
This ignorance is that both Christian Zionists and Messianics who are strongly disposed towards the modern secular socialist State of Israel, believe that Zionism and Judaism are identical. Further they do not realise that the zionism on which the State of Israel was politically founded is not biblical zionism by any means (as expounded by the Law and the prophets) but a secular socialist Zionism that later became infused with certain sects of Rabbinicalism. Hence the reasons why the State of Israel, while claiming itself to be a modern democracy, forbids non-jewish Messianics to be able to take up citizenship “in the land” and does nothing to prevent the religious Rabbinical censorship and persecution of any Messianics publically mentioning or testify to the name of Yahushua Messiah.
Firstly it must be noted that the majority of religious Jews today who remain in the Diaspora and have not chosen to make “aliyah” to the state of Israel – why is this? Surely if aliyah was a biblically defensible mainstream religious Jewish position, then all Jews should have already made aliyah to the State of Israel by now? Why has this has not happened?
The answer is to be found in the fact that the majority of religious Judah, by their own confession, is apparently not theologically convinced of the doctrine of “aliyah” to the state of Israel and the theology of zionism espoused by either the Israeli Rabbinics or the State of Israel, but rather they believe that they will only be brought back from exile when Messiah returns to redeem them from the exile. In other words, a majority of religious Judah is thus even more truly messianic-centered then those Messianics who have physically undertaken to temporarily move and reside in the state of Israel in the anticpating hope of pre-empting the unification of Judah and Joseph!
From the recent testimony report it appears that many of these messianic folk have been tragically succumbing to the deceptive teachings of the Israeli anti-missionary Rabbinics such as Kol Ha Tor, ( see http://www.kolhator.org.il/) , which deceive biblically illiterate Messianics by claiming they are promoting the reconciliation and return of the two Houses of Israel with great tolerance of Ephraim’s faith in Yahushua, when in reality (from experience of my own personal discussions with these Rabbincs) they are violently against anything but religious conversion to Rabbinical Judaism (that is their particular sect of course). Some of these Rabbinics (such as Brit Am), even make the claim that they serve as the only authoritative “spokesman” on behalf of Joseph to authoritative Judah and as such non-jewish messianics should support them financially because they are the only representation Ephraim is going to legitimately get. It is amazing that non-jewish messianics might even fall to such deception, when biblically it is declared throughout the scriptures that only Yahushua Messiah is the spokesman for Joseph /Ephraim. It certainly reveals that amongst Messianics there is yet a great ignorance of biblical law, the prophets and the declarations of Yahushua Messiah!
I strongly concur with the majority of religious Judaism’s rejection of Israeli labour zionism. They (the majority of religious Judah in the exile) are biblically correct, since (as discussed above) all the biblical prophesies foretell that the great return of the tribes of Jacob to “the land” in the last days is clearly proclaimed to be the sole mandate of Messiah Yahushua, as the Redeemer of Israel. He alone will bring the 12 tribes of Jacob back at the appointed time. Furthermore, His ability to do this before the very eyes of all peoples of the world will be the very evidence that will confirm to sincere brother Judah precisely who the true messiah is, because they firmly acknowledge that only the messiah of YHVH will bring all the exiles of the 12 tribes of Israel /Jacob back from the four corners of the world – and it will be all tribes at once - at the set time of redemption. This is in fact how the majority of religious Judah believes they will be able to identify who the true messiah of YHVH is in the last days, and this is precisely the position of all the biblical prophets, including Yahushua Messiah himself! Being a grafted regenerated part of the House of Joseph-Ephraim, I agree! I too wait expectantly until Messiah Yahushua brings me back from the nations and the great exile. I will not be going “to the land” until Messiah goes before me and directs me concerning both when and where to go once he has defeated the "lawless one" and resolved His controversy with the global government of the nations over the proprietaryship of His land.
In our days there has been much deception amongst both Christian Zionism and Messianics in this regard of the state of Israel and its Zionism. Perhaps Messianics have inherited their deception from the past 40 years of Christian Zionist teachings. For all true two-house Messianics, it should be our concern to careful note just exactly what is Judah’s predominant understanding of biblical Zionism and what voice is claiming itself to be “Judah”. From my study of the Torah and the prophecies of Jacob over the 12 tribes, I am convinced that the way these Israeli Rabbinics are confronting the 2-house Messianics in the State of Israel today are behaving in accord with the prophecies Jacob made over Simeon and Levi, rather then Judah.
When we have read the public statements by Israeli Rabbinical Jews claiming to have found and identified remnants of the “lost tribes” scattered among the nations, have you noticed that they have made these claims on the criterion of specifically recognizing whether such people are keeping the oral traditions and customs of Rabbinical Judaism? This criteria of definition is not anywhere near the true biblical definitions of the scattered lost tribes of Israel, since the scriptures prophesied that the lost tribes would to all intensive purposes become entirely “lost” to all mankind by complete assimilation and intermarriage with the nations – such that only the true Messiah of YHVH can identify who the remnant are. Indeed the biblical prophets proclaimed that the lost tribes would become fully gentile – so then it must be asked, how can Rabbinics then identify them by whether they are keeping Rabbinical oral traditions and customs, which were only actually formed by Rabbincal religion after the Maccabean period some 140 years BCE before Messiah was born (noting that the exile of the 10 lost tribes took place in 721 BCE?)?
However, certain sects of Rabbinical Judaism would like to have everyone believe that they can identify the lost tribes when they find evidence of small pockets of multi-cultural people who practise some resemblance of Rabbinical religious traditions. Thus what they are really identifying and claim is lost Israel is just that – remnants of themselves - scattered remnants of Rabbinical Judaism across the globe!
The truth is that a deception is being foisted upon the world! We who know Yahushua Messiah however know that the true lost tribes are those sheep whom He came to seek and find and who “would know His voice” and through the generations since the time of his first advent have received personal faith in him as the Messiah of YHVH and have subsequently followed the biblical faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and the prophets, receiving Divine forgiveness and salvation! Praise be the Name of YHVH!
We therefore do well to consider the implications of the statement of the Jewish orthodox movement Neturei Karta – Jews against Zionism, which is as follows:
“The truth is that the Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies. They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. In their two thousand years of Divinely decreed exile no Jew ever sought to end this exile and establish independent political sovereignty anywhere. The people's sole purpose was the study and fulfillment of the Divine commandments of the Torah.
The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism's inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.
To this day Torah Jewry remains forever loyal to its faith. Zionists want the world to believe that they are the representatives of the entire Jewish people. This is false! The Jewish people never chose them as their leaders.
However, despite the media blackout and easy resort to terror the simple truth remains unrefuted and irrefutable: ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA! “
The Creator gave us the Holy Land thousands of years ago. Yet, when we sinned, He took it away and sent us into exile. Since that time our task is to wait for Him to send the Messiah. At that time, the Creator alone, without any human being lifting a hand or saying a word, will bring us together and take us out of exile. He will likewise establish universal peace among all mankind and all will serve Him in good will.
Now should you find the above statement radically unacceptable to your particular brand of “zionism”, it is worth spending the time to read the first report listed below which was written by evangelical Christians. (see Understanding the other side of Israel that Christian Zionists ignore out of ignorance and deception). It is a timely report that was published just last week and which concisely reveals the Illuminist, Kabbalist and Masonic heritage of the modern state of Israel. It’s a fairly long read, and takes time to get going but ia seriously worth the effort!
In short, dear friends, we are in the very last days and it already seems that this year Abba is radically waking up his remnant elect from the great deceptions of these end times, so that we can be properly prepared for the coming Kingdom of YHVH and take refuge as He directs.
The tragic story of the Messianics losing their faith today in the State of Israel, after embarking on an eschatological vision that they must take matters into their own hands in agreement with the Rabbincs acceptance of what is required of Ephraim for the two sticks of Jacob return and settle in “the land” and in so doing usher in the millennial restoration, reminds us of the historical record in the Book of Jasher.
In the Book of Jasher we note that some 40 years before YHVH’s redeemer Moses came onto the scene some 250,000 of the tribe of Ephraim convinced themselves to attempt their own return to the land of Canaan. The Book of Jasher records that the Philistines destroyed them to the last 10 men! They indeed lay down in sorrow when they danced to the sparks of their own fire that they had kindled! The lesson is that YHVH is our Redeemer from the slavery of Egypt, not religious men no matter how well intentioned!!
When we watch the broad-stream developments in Christian religious ecumenism planned for 2012 (see articles below) and we hear of Messianics converting to Judaism in the state of Israel at a time when we are approaching the period of which Yahushua warned His people to flee Judea, we all need to examine ourselves with prayer whether we are walking in the true Messianic-centred fear of YHVH, for this is the beginning of Divine wisdom. The hour is late!
As the time is approaching, one does not have to be a prophet today but simply to be alert to see that there is a false gathering of the tribes of Israel that is probably underway now, and that a fales messiah will soon be rising, to establish a false temple for an ecumenical world religion that is hoping to replace the Name of YHVH and His Redeemer, YHVH of Hosts who is Yahusua Messiah.
Only Yahushua, the Holy One of Israel, and by the Spirit of YHVH, who is the Elohiym of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will keep us in true light!
Take care in the way of YHVH.
Rob
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