Advice for Seekers
Immerse
yourself in the TaNaCH. Follow the example of the Bereans in Acts
17:11 and Ezra in Ezra 7:10. They both diligently studied and
searched the TaNaCH to know for themselves the truth of Scripture.
They were not content to know Scripture in a second hand manner.
For
example of Allegorizing
Scripture
“According
to Obadiah 1:20 the House of Israel would migrate to a place called
Tzarfat... this is the Hebrew word for "France" in fact
Rashi's commentary on Obadiah 1:20 says that this refers to France.
These "Gauls" were GAL-aeens who had been exiled by the
Assyrians to the land north of Assyria, As they passed through the
area known now as Turkey they created a colony there called GAL-atia.
If one compares the openning of James and 1Kefa there is an obvious
parallel. One will notice that "the twelve tribes scattered
among the nations" in James is said in 1Kefa to include
"Galatia". - Jtrimm
Allegorical
interpretations of Scripture – Allegorizing Scripture occurs when
one applies a meaning to a passage of Scripture that the original
author never
intended.
“The
priesthood and kingship of Cohen Gadol and Melekh Y'shua haMoshiach
is based on his authority as a Torah observant Rabbi.
- if
the authority of the House of Judah is removed, then so is his.”
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Obadiah 19.
And [the inhabitants of] the southland shall inherit the mountain of
Esau, and [the inhabitants of] the plain, the Philistines, and they
shall inherit the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria, and
Benjamin [with the inhabitants of] Gilead.
And
[the inhabitants of] the southland shall inherit: Israel, who were
dwelling in the south of Eretz Israel, shall inherit the mountain of
Esau, which is at the southern boundary; and the people of the plain
shall inherit the land of the Philistines and Mt. Ephraim and Mt.
Shomeron.
and
Benjamin with [the inhabitants of] Gilead: And the children of
Manasseh, whose territory was the land of Gilead, shall spread beyond
the borders of Eretz Israel on the east.
Obadiah 20.
And this exiled host of the children of Israel who are [with] the
Canaanites as far as Zarephath and the exile of Jerusalem which is in
Sepharad shall inherit the cities of the southland.
And
this exiled host: Heb. הַחֵל.
Jonathan renders: This people. הַחֵל,
An expression of a host. Cf. (Isa. 36:2) “And he came (sic) to
Jerusalem with an army (חֵיל)
of a great multitude,” which deals with Rabshakeh, only that this
one is missing a “yud.” It is also possible to explain גָלֻת
הַחֵל as
“the exile of this valley.”
who
are [with] the Canaanites as far as Zarephath: The exile which is of
the children of Israel who were exiled from the ten tribes to the
land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath
and
the exile of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad: who are of the people of
Judah who were exiled to Sepharad - they shall inherit the cities of
the southland, which are in the southern part of Eretz Israel. The
exegetes claim that Zarephath is the kingdom called France in French.
Sepharad:
Jonathan renders: Spain.
Obadiah
says it was the northern boundary of Canaan (Obadiah 1:20).
Originally Sidonian, the town passed to the Tyrians after the
invasion of Shalmaneser IV, 722 BCE. It fell to Sennacherib in 701.
In Hebrew after
the Diaspora,
the name Zarephath (צרפת,
ts-r-f-t, Tsarfat) is used to mean France,
perhaps because the Hebrew letters ts-r-f,
if reversed, become f-r-ts.
In
713 BC Sargon stayed at home; his troops took, among others,
Karalla, Tabal and Cilicia.
Some Mede rulers
offered tribute. In 711 BC, Gurgum was conquered. An uprising in the
Philistine city of Ashdod,
supported by Judah, Moab, Edom and Egypt,
was suppressed, and Ashdod became an Assyrian province.
Under
his rule, the Assyrians completed the defeat of the Kingdom
of Israel,
capturing Samaria after
a siege of three years and exiling the inhabitants. This became the
basis of the legends of the Lost
Ten Tribes.
According to the Bible,
other people were brought to Samaria, theSamaritans,
under his predecessor Shalmaneser
V (2
Kings 18). Sargon's name actually appears in the Bible only once, at
Isaiah 20:1, which records the Assyrian capture of Ashdod in 711 BC.
i.e.
Judean Diaspora in 70 CE by the Roman Empire. Note
Sepharad, or Sefarad, or Sfard, is a biblical place
name of uncertain location. It is mentioned only once in
the Bible, in the Book of Obadiah Obadiah 1:20. There are,
however, Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called
"Saparda": one area in Media and another in Asia
Minor. It is speculated that Sepharad could have been Sardis.
Since
the period of Roman Antiquity, after the Peshitta of
the 2nd century, Spanish Jews gave the name "Sepharad"
to the Iberian peninsula.The descendants of Iberian Jews
[Tribe of Judah] refer to themselves as Sephardi
Jews [Tribe of Judah] (Hebrew, plural: Sephardim)
and identify Spain as "Sepharad" in modern
Hebrew. - Judean Diaspora in 70 CE
2Ki
17:18 so that ADONAI, by now very angry with Isra'el, removed them
from his sight. None was left except the tribe of Y'hudah alone.
2Ki
17:19 (However, neither did Y'hudah obey the mitzvot of ADONAI their
God; rather they lived according to the customs of Isra'el.)
2Ki
17:20 Yes, ADONAI came to despise all the descendants of Isra'el. He
caused them trouble and handed them over to plunderers, until finally
he threw them out of his sight.
(Jeremiah
3:8) "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given
her a bill of divorce;
yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the
harlot also." Again, it does not say they ceased to exist.
In
713 BC Sargon stayed at home; his troops took, among others,
Karalla, Tabal and Cilicia.
Some Mede rulers
offered tribute. In 711 BC, Gurgum was conquered. An uprising in the
Philistine city of Ashdod,
supported by Judah, Moab, Edom and Egypt,
was suppressed, and Ashdod became an Assyrian province.
Under
his rule, the Assyrians completed the defeat of the Kingdom
of Israel,
capturing Samaria after
a siege of three years and exiling the inhabitants. This became the
basis of the legends of the Lost
Ten Tribes.
According to the Bible,
other people were brought to Samaria, theSamaritans,
under his predecessor Shalmaneser
V (2
Kings 18). Sargon's name actually appears in the Bible only once, at
Isaiah 20:1, which records the Assyrian capture of Ashdod in 711 BC.
The
Ten Northern Tribes of Israel are
exiled from Eretz Israel and become known as "the
Ten Lost Tribes." Despite
all the speculation and imagination the most likely scenario is that
these Israelite Houses were worked to death by the Assyrians (under
king Sargon II) and/or intermarried with them and thus lost their
ethnic and spiritual identity.
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Note how this is
worded: "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,
and removed them out of his sight: there was none left
but the tribe of Judah only" (II Kings 17:18). It is noted by
some that this text does not say HaShem had them destroyed but that
they were moved out of his sight. Of these 10 houses we read:
(Jeremiah 3:8) "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given
her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared
not, but went and played the harlot also." Again, it does not
say they ceased to exist.
This later led to the fall of Judah as well (606 BCE). Some of these Northern Israelites may have escaped back to Judah as well. This experience was a culling of the people by HaShem and demonstrated the importance of loyalty to HaShem and His Torah. Adonai chose in favor of Judah and secured their continued existence as his Elect.
But HaShem will not forget these people forever. During the final Seven Years and into the Messianic Kingdom the Ten Houses will be reborn (Revelation 11:, Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 3:6-18; Hosea 1-3; Amos 9:8-10; Obadia 15-21; Micah 2:12-13; 5:3-15; Zechariah 8:13; 9 & 10; Ezekiel 34-37). Note that the 10 tribes are often referred to as "Ephraim" in Scripture. They went to "another land" ("Artzaret") according to non-extra-biblical book 2nd Ezra 11:39-46. There are many who believe these people traveled to Europe and became the main people groups there. I am not among those who believe this in part because the Europeans are mainly the descendants of Noah's son Japheth rather than of Shem (as are the Yahudaites (or Jews). I discuss this elsewhere in more detail. Nonetheless their eventual return does imply their continued existence "somewhere." Perhaps the Genome Project and similar research will shed more light on this subject. Source: http://www.jewtoo.org/timeline.html
Being approximately 2700 years old, copyright does not apply to this statue.
This colossal sculpture stands about sixteen feet high and weighs forty tons. It was one of many sculptures that guarded the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II. A protective spirit known as a lamassu, it was shown as a composite being with the head of a human, the body and ears of a bull, and the wings of a bird.
Between 900-630 B.C. the kings of ancient Mesopotamia built great palaces filled with colossal stone reliefs such as this. These massive palaces reflected the power that these rulers wielded over an empire that stretched from Egypt to Iran. King Sargon II ruled Mesopotamia and much of the then-known world from his palace at Khorsabad in northern Iraq.
The
Mesopotamians became empire-builders for a variety of reasons. They
fought for security, believing that they could protect themselves by
expanding into areas where threats might arise. They went to war for
economic gain, taxing the peoples they conquered, collecting tribute
in land and resources, and taking prisoners to serve as slave labor.
Warfare was also justified on the grounds of religious beliefs.
Conquest was considered the divine mission of the king, whose role
was to bring more land, people, and goods under the jurisdiction of
the national god, Ashur.
3038 - 3039 HH --722/721 BCE: Northern Kingdom of Israel is destroyed by the Assyrians.
3038 - 3039 HH --722/721 BCE: Northern Kingdom of Israel is destroyed by the Assyrians.
The "Two House" and "Replacement Theology" Heresies
In his Matthew 24 list of End Time prophecies Navi Y'shua spoke of the rise of false doctrines meant to deceive even the elect. This is one of those doctrines. The priesthood and kingship of Cohen Gadol and Melekh Y'shua haMoshiach is based on his authority as a Torah observant Rabbi. These heresies seek to deny the authority and position of the Jewish elders and even the significance of the House of Judah itself. As a Rabbi of the P'rushim, of the House of Judah, if the authority of the House of Judah is removed, then so is his.Due in large part to heresies being advocated on the internet, the "Two House" movement is growing and deceiving ever more people. Its important to understand what this heresy teaches in order to resist it and hold to the Truth of Torah:
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Two
House Theory: The anti-Torah doctrine that the "Ten Lost
Houses of Israel" (taken together as the "House of
Ephraim") takes precedence over the remaining House of Judah
(composed of Judah and Benjamin: i.e. the Jews).
Advocates of this heresy usually identify "the House of Ephraim" as White Europeans (especially those of the British Isles). Based on this error they believe themselves to be "true Israel" ("Spiritual Israel" etc) and inevitably promote anti-Semitic versions of replacement theologies. This heresy gained "legs" under the Nicene Christian sect known as the World Wide Church of God and the teachings of Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 – September 15, 2003).
Related Posts: *** Book of Mormon in the Language of Branches
Discussion
of LDS and Kabbalistic Theosophy centered around a study of the Book
of Mormon as an authentic record of scripture capable of being
analyzed by means of the PaRDeS exegesis.
http://bomlanguageofbranches.blogspot.com/
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Christian Missionaries trying to make phony Aliyah to Israel
And "EPHRAIM" by Yair Davidiy Ephraim
has an Approbation from Rabbi Avraham Feld who speaks very strongly
about the moral imperative we all have to spread the Brit-Am message.
http://britam.org/bkephraim.html
Related
Post on Yair
Davidy and Rabbi Avraham Feld
But
when it comes to the Hebraic roots movement and attempts at the
"reunification"of the Gentile "lost tribes" with
their Jewish "brothers", Rabbi Avraham Feld, of Kol HaTor
and Yair Davidy, of Brit
Am,
are certainly front and center.
While
researching for this report, Jewish
Israel was
surprised to see the Maccabee
Institute,
a charity organization, whose purpose is to fight assimilation and
promote Jewish heritage, mentioned as supporters
of Brit Am,
an organization which "avoids the discussion of religious
differences" between Jew and Gentile members of the "Lost
Ten Tribes" and envisions Jewish and Gentile reunification and
co-inheritance of the land of Israel.
The
Maccabee Institute, located in Israel, is headed by Rabbi Avraham
Feld and by Rabbi David Feld. They have been consistent and firm
supporters of Brit-Am Israel from the beginning.
Sure
enough, when we went to the American Friends of The Maccabee
Institute website we found this headline:
"We
appreciate the awakening of our long lost brothers and sisters of Ten
Israel !!!!
We
are dedicated to informing Judah of this remarkable, sensational and
long-awaited happening !!!!
We
have some activities ‘on the ground‘ to help encourage, further
and promote the
reconcilliation
of the Tribes . All of this with mutural respect and patience .
We
favor practical, loving and halachic ways to achieve a new and
renewed connection between."
On
May 1st, Jewish Israel contacted Rabbi David
Feld, President of the Maccabee Institute, to
express our concerns and to discuss any connections he may have with
recent Christian attempts at aliyah.
Rabbi
David Feld was very attentive and concerned. He told this writer that
he has met with members of the Hebraic roots movement and that
he originally thought the Ten Tribers/ Ephramites were Noahides,
but he now realizes the dangers involved.
Rabbi
David Feld told us that he is not associated with "Ten Triber"
movements and he was unaware that his homepage was welcoming them. He
assured us that any confusing links and references on the Macabee
Institute site would be removed. Rabbi David Feld reiterated
that he is adamantly opposed to missionary activity and believes that
there should be clear lines drawn between Judaism and Christianity.
However, he does support upstanding, moral non-Jews who are seeking
to learn more about the Noahide Laws.
A
few weeks after the above conversation took place, the linked
reference to the Ten Triber movement on the the
American Friends of The Maccabee Institute homepage was
removed. Nevertheless, the existing
page content remains.
“The
priesthood and kingship of Cohen Gadol and Melekh Y'shua haMoshiach
is based on his authority as a Torah observant Rabbi.
- if
the authority of the House of Judah is removed, then so is his.”
The Brit-Am & Mormon message is in fact antisemitic or a better
understanding is Anti-Jewish [ANTI-JUDAH] – anti-messiah
For
those calling themselves Messianic Jews or Messianic Judaism yet
holding to the replacement theology by belonging to a Tribe other
than the tribe of Judah see Matthew 24 and Revelation 2:9 you may
very well be participating in the fulfillment of Prophesy!
The Grafting In
Now comes a strong warning:Romans 11:16 Now if the challah offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole loaf. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.The Antisemitic Nicolaitan doctrine known as "Replacement theology" is utterly rejected here.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you - a wild olive - were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,
18 then don't boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.
Those Gentiles who come to HaShem through the B'rit Hadashah inaugurated through Cohen Gadol Y'shua do not replace the Jews! God forbid (verse 1)! They are "grafted onto the tree" and become part of the Tree. What tree? Israel. This could not be made any more clear. The religion of Israel is Judaism. Nicene Christianity is a man made religion.
Source: Rabbi Yochanan Levine of Yeshiva Beth HaShem http://yeshivabethhashem.org/
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