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THE TRUE IDENTITY and DESTINY of HEBREW Israelites in Christ
An Overview
Continued...
It is written, "Behold, the days come says YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisrael and with the house of Yehudah (Judah)." (YirmeYahu [Jer.] 31:31). This is without a doubt, a clear reference to the New Covenant/Testament, ratified by the blood of Y'shua (Ibrim [Hebrews] 8:8). If the body of Christ at large is to ever genuinely receive its manifold blessings - including the ever-elusive racial and doctrinal unity of the faith - she must do so according to divine law, and within the specific terms of this covenant. Sélah.
As with any contract, the 'New Covenant', being a binding legal agreement, was entered into by two principal parties. The identity of the first party is universally agreed upon - YAH Himself. But when it comes to the identity of the other party involved, much controversy still remains. The Commonwealth of Israel in Christ must finally come to terms with the fact that until this particular matter is fully resolved, any efforts toward seeing the precious promises of the Covenant fulfilled are utterly in vain!
So then the first order of business, despite its complexities, is very simple: we must come to a full understanding of the contract. We must accurately identify the principal parties involved - YHWH and Y'shua/Yisrael and Yehudah - and then determine exactly what kind of contract it is; understanding clearly both the rights and responsibilities required of its principal parties by divine law.
Abram of Ur
Despite the raging controversy over the true identity of the physical descendants of Ya'aqob [Jacob], there is no such dispute when it comes to identifying the original father of the ancient Hebrew Israelites - Abraham. In order to determine the racial and ethnic characteristics of Israel and 'Judah' - and thereby accurately identify the covenant's second principal party - we must then of course, begin at the beginning. We must establish the true 'race' and ethnicity of Abraham. For purposes of this overview, our doing so will be brief, and directly to the point [for a more in-depth look into this issue, see Part 1].
According to B'reshit (Genesis) 11, Abraham is originally from a region called Ur of the Chaldees. This area was located in what is modern day Iraq. From every objective indicator - Biblical, archeological, anthropological, geographical and historical - that region of the world was at that time, and to a great extent even today, populated by a dark-skinned, woolly haired people.
For example, the ancient artistic renderings of the Hebrew slaves by the Chaldeans, the indigenous peoples of that region, clearly and consistently depict an Afro-Asiatic physical appearance. Furthermore, common knowledge says it is simply a physiological impossibility for a 'white-skinned' people to long withstand the routine one hundred degree plus temperatures that were the norm in the land of Ur. And thus, the indigenous peoples obviously had to have been "Afro-Asiatic", so to speak.
Even today, that area of the world is hardly peopled by Anglo-Saxons/Caucasians. And so the bizarre assumption that Abram of Ur was "white-skinned" - and that, without any evidence whatsoever - is patently absurd on its face. Abraham was/is clearly and obviously a dark-skinned man, just as were the rest of the indigenous peoples of the region.
The Seventy Souls
The Torah tells us that Abraham's direct descendants, the ancient Israelites, while sojourning in Egypt, multiplied from seventy souls to in excess of 650,000 men, not including women and children, at the time of the exodus under Moshe (Moses)...
The ancient Egyptians, unlike their Hebrew counterparts, were descended from Kham (Ham), the son of Noakh (Noah) - universally recognized as the father of the so-called African nations. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians were also a dark-skinned people. How then could the children of Israel grow from a handful to a multitude of millions in Egypt in so short a time, without mass intermarriage with the Egyptians and other 'Hamitic' peoples? As it is written, the children of Israel came out of Egypt under Moshe "a mixed multitude." This simple fact alone makes it literally impossible for the ancient Israelites to have been Anglo-Saxons/Caucasians.
The great emancipator Moshe himself was raised as Pharaoh's grandson, at a time when Pharaoh sought to destroy all Hebrew male babies. For Pharaoh to have issued such an edict with any credibility, the Hebrew infant Moses had to have passed as his grandson. Could Moshe then have possibly been a "white Hebrew" baby in the royal court of a 'black' Hamitic king and go undetected? Obviously not.
The scripture even tells us that the adult 'Moses' was initially mistaken by the daughters of Yithro (Jethro) to be a Mizraimite (an Egyptian). Moshe's physical characteristics are thus recorded in scripture as being indistinguishable from the Egyptian descendants of Kham ('Ham') - the universally acknowledged forbearer of the so-called black African nations. Clearly, and beyond a shadow of a doubt, the ancient Hebrew Israelites, just like the ancient Egyptians, were basically a dark-skinned, wooly haired people.
Genesis 15:13
The next step in determining the true identity of 'Israel and Judah' - the disputed principal party in YHWH's New Covenant - is to discover how the scriptures characterize their divine purpose and ultimate destiny. What was to be the fate of the chosen people in the last days? Again, we must look to the Genesis of Yisra'el - the original vision and design for the holy nation, as well as the promises of divine blessings and dominion given to our father Abraham.
It is no mere coincidence that on the same day that YHWH made His covenant with Abram, giving his seed the land from the Nile (Egypt and Ethiopia) to the Euphrates (the so-called Middle East), He also revealed to him what manner of affliction his posterity would endure before the inheritance would be theirs - just as the ultimate seed of Abraham, Y'shua Himself, would endure the cross before receiving the keys to the Kingdom...
YAH said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years..." (B'reshit [Gen.] 15:13).
Western scholars and theologians, to a man, have insisted that this revelation was fulfilled with the Egyptian bondage, and ended with the Exodus under Moshe. This is based, for the most part, on a misreading of Sh'mot (Exodus) 12:40, which reads "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years." But notice what this verse does not say. He does not say the bondage of the children of Israel lasted four hundred years, but rather their sojourning. This verse is simply referring to the full extent of the journeyings of Israel from Abraham to the Exodus.
The apostle Paul bears this out - telling us that the law of Moshe came four hundred and thirty years after the covenant with Abraham, and did not make the original promise [which was by faith, and before the law] of none effect. [see Gal. 3:16-17]. This means that a mere thirty years after the covenant was made with Abraham, the four hundred year bondage would have begun - the children of Israel would have been enslaved by the Egyptians.
But thirty years after that covenant was made, Ya'aqob [Jacob] himself, who was to become the patriarch of the twelve tribes of Israel, wasn't yet born - much less the generations of Israelites who would proceed from his loins and suffer Egyptian bondage!
As a matter of fact, Moshe's grandfather Kohath was one of the original seventy souls that entered into Egypt during the time of favor under Yosef (Joseph)! So it becomes crystal clear to any honest observer; to any sincere seeker of truth, that the prophecy of B'reshit (Gen.) 15:13 was in no way fulfilled by the Egyptian enslavement of the ancient Hebrew Israelites.
Clearly, this word from YAH was intended to reveal to Abraham - and to us - what would befall the chosen nation in the last days. And at a time subsequent to the bondage in Egypt. Therefore, in order to accurately identify the core of the physical seed of Abraham, Yitschaq, and Ya'aqob (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) in the modern world, one must simply determine what nation of people has actually endured the affliction foretold in B'reshit (Gen.) 15:13.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
In all of recorded history, only one nation of people has ever been continuously afflicted in the land of its oppressors for anything even remotely approaching a four-hundred year period: the so-called African slaves and their descendants, under the United States of America.
In the book of Debarim (Deuteronomy), Moshe prophesied concerning the children of Israel, saying "And YHWH shall bring you into Egypt again with ships... and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall redeem you." (Debarim [Deut.] 28:68).
This verse of scripture reveals that the Israelites would endure yet another, much more insidious form of bondage - one in which there was no possibility of redemption after a set period of time, as was the case with the form of slavery practiced among the civilized world of that day. It further reveals that Israel would be enslaved with ships; clearly indicating that this new "Egypt" would be a land reachable only by sea...
The whole 28th chapter of Debarim (Deut.) unmistakably outlines a form of slavery theretofore unknown. One in which the Israelites would not only lose their freedom, but their very identity - their history, culture and religion; yea, their very humanity...
This chilling prophecy was without question fulfilled by the most horrific method of national disintegration ever devised; through the most cruel and barbaric form of slavery in the annals of recorded human history - the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Let it also be known that the bulk of those who were brought to the Western hemisphere in ships were the descendants of the Judean diaspora into Egypt and Ethiopia brought on by the Roman destruction of Yehudah and Yerushalayim (Judah and Jerusalem) in 70 AD - recorded for posterity by the noted ancient historian Josephus. [At that point in time, for the most part, it was the southern Kingdom of Yehudah that dwelled in the land of our fathers - the ten northern tribes that constituted the Kingdom of Yisra'el having long since been dispersed eastward under Assyrian captivity in 722 BC.]
These displaced Judahites were most often despised and persecuted among the so-called African nations as well. As a result, most were driven westward, until finally arriving on the west coast of Africa where they were eventually captured and sold...
And thus, the children of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade are primarily the actual descendants of the southern Kingdom, consisting of the tribes of Yehudah, Benyamin (Benjamin) and Levi - the rulers by divine birthright over the nation of Israel as a whole, and those who must therefore bear the burden of bringing order and unity to the entire Commonwealth. Sélah.
The Stolen Legacy
In our final step in determining the rightful and legal executors of the New Covenant - having clearly identified the modern descendants of the Kingdom of Yehudah - it's needful to point out that the chastisement of Yisrael prophesied in Debarim (Deut.) is a fate that has never befallen those widely perceived to be true Judah today - the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe, the land of Israel and the US.
This nation of people referring to themselves as Jews could not possibly be the physical descendants of the ancient Judahites, simply because they fail to meet the criteria set by the Hebrew prophets concerning their racial and ethnic origins. But also, because they as a people have never suffered the wretched conditions that would come upon and overtake Israel in the last days...
The Ashkenazi Jews, notwithstanding the horrible suffering they endured at the hands of the Nazis, have in no wise been subjected to the divine chastisement of absolute disenfranchisement and dehumanization - including the very loss of national identity - as foretold by the prophets.
Therefore, it becomes necessary to discover the true national identity of the modern day Ashkenazi Jews, in order to fully establish the identity and purpose of the true physical seed of Israel in Christ. Since these European Jews are clearly not the actual descendants of the ancient Kingdom of Yehudah, then who are they? And why until just recently, has the whole world assumed them to be true Israel? Once again, we must turn to the book of beginnings - Genesis - for the surprising answer to this profound mystery...
In the book of Bereshit (Genesis), we read concerning the sons of Noakh (Noah), that the European nations descended not from Shem, the father of the Hebrews, but rather, from Yefet (Japheth). So then the Ashkenazi Jews, many of whom so hastily brand anyone who would dare to find fault with their people in any way as "anti-Semites", are in actuality not a "Semitic" people themselves!
And although there are certainly many sincere seekers of YAH among their ranks, this key point is critical in understanding why as a whole, this nation of people erroneously believe themselves to be descendants of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and have been so widely perceived and accepted as such.
Ironically, in the same passage of scripture used by "Talmudic Judaism" to conclude that so-called black people are the "cursed descendants of Ham", lies a great mystery that unveils the real truth about Ashkenazi-based claims to the promises of Abraham. Noakh, beyond his alleged curse upon 'Ham' (it was actually Kena'an [Canaan]), prophesies that YAH would "...enlarge Yefet (Japheth), and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Kena'an shall be his servant." (Bereshit [Gen.] 10:27).
In the King James version of the Torah, the word "enlarge" in this verse is rendered in the margin as "persuade" - which is actually closer to the actual meaning of the original Hebrew word Moshe used. In the original Hebrew, the word translated enlarge is the word "Pathah", which actually means to entice, or to deceive!
What Noakh (Noah) was then prophesying was that the children of Yefet (Japheth) would be enticed and persuaded by YAH to "dwell in the tents of Shem." In short, Caucasian proselytes (a tribe/nation called the Khazars) and other European descendants of Japheth, would occupy the land of the Hebrew Israelites (descendants of Shem) while under a strong delusion... Sélah.
Divine Destiny
So then, Ashkenazi Jewry is in reality those descendants of 'Japheth', who for purposes of establishing the soon coming Kingdom of Judah, were destined to both assume the identity and occupy the land of Judah under YAH's "persuasion" - fully believing themselves to be the physical seed of Abraham! Even so, Ahmein and Amen.
This amazing fulfillment of the prophecy of Noakh is among other things, YAH's divine chastisement upon the natural children of Israel for their rebellion in rejecting their birthright...
YAH, in His Divine providence, allowed the sacred inheritance to fall temporarily into the hands of a deceived nation; to prepare the land for the return of the true seed, and to provoke true Yisrael to jealousy - (note: righteous jealousy is not ENVY. As it is written, "...for I, YHWH your Elohim, am a jealous God...") - that we may turn to Him again in righteousness; and that the promise to Abraham of his seed inheriting the land forever may be gloriously fulfilled! Indeed, "YAH has not cast away His people whom He foreknew." (Romans 11:2). Sélah.
Hear O Yisrael, and hearken, you ends of the earth: It is written, "From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my worshippers, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering." (TzefanYahu [Zeph.] 3:10). And surely, "...it shall come to pass in the place where it was said unto them, you are not My people; there it shall be said unto them, you are the sons of the living Elohim." (Hoshea [Hosea] 1:10). Even so, Ahmein.
For the true identity of the children of the Tran-Atlantic slave trade, from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia - Africa and the Western Hemisphere - is Biblical Hebrew Israelites of the Kingdom of Judah!
The ultimate destiny of the physical Kingdom of 'Judah' is to serve the body of Messiah/Christ at large as royal high priests after the order of Melchizedek; to the end that the entire Commonwealth of Israel may be confirmed in the royal priesthood as well - the faithful remnant of Hebrew Israelites in Christ, and the adopted sons of the covenant from every kindred, tribe, tongue, nation and people...
...in order to establish an authentic unity of the faith; in preparation for the triumphant return of our Royal High Priest, Y'shua Ha Mashiach, to rule the Kingdom of heaven in everlasting righteousness, joy and peace! HalleluYAH!!!
Shalom Aleichem!
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