Ephraimite National Unity: Shabbath Shalom Israel 13-4-2012

Someone wrote about ‘Ezekiel 37, some have a misinterpretation’:

‘The DIFFERENCE occurs in V. 19, where the Lord CLEARLY says that He will put the stick of "Israel"(compared to the stick of Judah) WITH THE STICK of Judah. means the stick of "Israel" (Joseph, Ephraim and Manassheh, who were all raised in Egypt and had egyptian ways about them and had lost the Torah in their lives) will go towards Judah (representing Torah obedience)’

Eze 37:19 say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.” ’

My reaction on Ezekiel 37

I believe the different is that we do Abba's YHWH 'Chukim' and 'Mishpatim' - His Mitswoth - Torah.

I'm from Yudah and I say, Yudah doesn't 'present' 'Torah obedience'. We only have to look how we live together in Yudah, Messianic or not Messianic speaking in general.

To become united Yudah and Ephraim, 'one stick' we have to do His 'Chukim' and 'Mishpatim' - His Mitswot - Torah. And not one or more of them to replace with what is coming fort out of Christianity or Yudaism.

The fulfillment of Ezekiel 37 shall come forth as Abba YHWH is teaching us:

Exo 20:1 And Elohim spoke all these Words, saying,
Exo 20:2 “I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery.
Exo 20:3 “You have no other mighty ones against My face.
Exo 20:4 “You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,
Exo 20:5 you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה your Elohim am a jealous Ěl, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exo 20:6 but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands (מצותי).

Exo 20:7 “You do not bring1 the Name of יהוה your Elohim to naught, for יהוה does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught. Footnote: 1Or lift up, or take.

So than there come's, 'showing kindness' between Yudah and Ephraim. And we can become 'one-stick'. Or to say it nicer:

Zec_9:13 “For I shall bend Yehuḏah for Me, I shall fill the bow with Ephrayim, and I shall stir up your sons, O Tsiyon (this is the 'one-stick'), against your sons, O Greece, and I shall make you like the sword of a mighty man.”

or:

Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside (doing teshuvah), and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off (doing teshuvah). Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim. (we both have to do teshuvah in coming 'one-stick')

(And then comes, I believe it is very close by….)

Isa 11:14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏom and Mo’aḇ, and the children of Ammon shall be subject to them.

Abba YHWH promised it very clearly:

Jer 31:31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah1, Footnote: 1See Heb. 8:8-12, Heb. 10:16-17. (Messianic’s please read these pasukim)

Jer 31:32 not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke (Yudah and Ephraim), though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.

Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

In Yudah many of us read 'Onkolos' near the weekly reading:

In rabbinical translations (Targumim) is many times used the Aramaic word ‘Memra’

מימרא

From מימר m.ch = h. מאמר 1) word, command Targum: the Word, i.e. The Lord

(MARCUS JASTROW)

Targum Onkelos on Gen 3:8: ‘And they heard the voice of the Word (Memra) of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from before the Lord God among the trees of the garden.’ (An 1892 translation by J. W. Etheridge http://targum.info/targumic-texts/)

My Jewish family please read careful the pasukim where they use the word 'Memra' in. And then….. In the HaBerith HaChadashah:

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.
Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with Elohim.
Joh 1:3 All came to be through Him,1 and without Him not even one came to be that came to be. Footnote: 1Eph. 3:9, Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:2, Heb. 11:3, 2 Peter 3:5, Ps. 33:6. (Please read all the Pasukim)
Joh 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

In the HaBerith HaChadasha I find the next teaching:

(He is your Leader (Sovereign): Luk 1:31 “And see, you shall conceive in your womb, and shall give birth to a Son, and call His Name יהושע.1 Footnote: 1Mt. 1:21.
Luk 1:32 “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And יהוה Elohim shall give Him the throne of His father Dawiḏ.
Luk 1:33 “And He shall reign over the house of Yaʽaqoḇ forever, and there shall be no end to His reign.”1 Footnote: 1Verses 32 and 33 confirm the prophecies Ps. 2, Ps. 89:14-34, Isa. 9:7, Isa. 16:5, Jer. 23:3-6, Jer. 30:9, Ezek. 37:24, Dan. 2:44, Dan. 7:18-27, Mic. 5:2-4, Acts 1:6-7, Rev. 11:15. (Please read these Pasukim)

You let Him reign over you?

Col 2:6 Therefore, as you accepted Messiah יהושע the Master, walk in Him,
Col 2:7 having been rooted and built up in Him, and established in the belief, as you were taught, overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
Col 2:8 See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world,1 and not according to Messiah. Footnote: 1See v. 20, and Gal. 4:3 & 9.
Col 2:9 Because in Him dwells all the completeness of the Mightiness (Abba YHWH) bodily,
Col 2:10 and you have been made complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority.
Col 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah,

(Abba YHWH said: Deu_10:16 “And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.
And: Deu_30:6 “And יהוה your Elohim shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live,

This one of His Chukim,” ‘The Chukim (statutes) are commandments whose reason is unknown; and the sages of blessed memory taught (Midrash T’hillim 9) [that the Almighty said] ‘I enacted Chukim for you, and you have no right to entertain doubting thoughts about them’ A man’s evil impulse troubles him about them, and the nations of the world comment caustically about them; for example: the prohibition on pig-meat, and meat and milk (you don’t have that in the written Torah, Ariel), and the laws of the heifer whose neck was broken, the red heifer, and the goat sent off [into the wilderness]” from ‘the concise Book of Mitzvoth’ Rabbi Yisrael Meir haKohen.

Psa 119:68 You are good, and do good; Teach me Your laws.
Psa 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me, With all my heart I observe Your orders.
Psa 119:70 Their heart has become like fat, Without feeling; I have delighted in Your Torah.
Psa 119:86 All Your commands are trustworthy; They have persecuted me with lies; Help me!)

Col 2:12 having been buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the belief in the working of Elohim, who raised Him from the dead.
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses1 and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, Footnote: 1Eph. 2:1.
Col 2:14 having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.
Col 2:15 Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –
Col 2:17 which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.
Col 2:18 Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body – nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments – grows with the growth of Elohim.
Col 2:20 If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters1 of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations: Footnote: 1See v. 8, and Gal. 4:3 & 9.
Col 2:21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” –
Col 2:22 which are all to perish with use – according to the commands and teachings of men?1 Footnote: 1Note: commands and teachings of men, not of Elohim.
Col 2:23 These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation and harsh treatment of the body – of no value at all, only for satisfaction of the flesh.

Please follow the teaching of Abba YHWH, His Chukim and Mishpatim (The Mitswoth - The Law). His Word, that became flesh.

Than He becomes Yeshuah, like in:

Exo 15:2 “Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance . (In Hebrew: יה ויהי־לי לישׁועה (ישׁועה Yeshuah) He is my Ěl, and I praise Him – Elohim of my father, and I exalt Him.

We shall learn that in the special time where we live in now. O Yudah and Ephraim!

Soon we shall learn:

Eze 37:9 He then said to me, “Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and you shall say to the spirit, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe on these slain, so that they live.” ’ ”

Eze 37:10 And I prophesied as He commanded me, and the spirit came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great army.

In connection with:

Hab 1:1 The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.

Hab 1:2 O יהוה, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save.

Hab 1:3 Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.

Hab 1:4 Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.

Hab 1:5 “Look among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told.

Hab 1:6 “See, I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Hab 1:7 “They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.

Hab 1:8 “Their horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.

Hab 1:9 “All of them come for violence, the direction of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.

Hab 1:10 “And they scoff at sovereigns, and princes are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up earth and seize it.

Hab 1:11 “Then shall he pass on as a wind, and transgress and be guilty, and ascribe this power to his mighty one.”

Hab 1:12 Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof.

Jer 16:14 “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when it is no longer said, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of Mitsrayim,’

Jer 16:15 but, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers.

Jer 16:16 “See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jer 16:17 “For My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from My face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from My eyes.

Jer 16:18 “And first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the dead bodies of their disgusting matters, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jer 16:19 O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”¹ Footnote: ¹See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4.

Jer 16:20 Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones?

Jer 16:21 “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is יהוה!”