THE END TIME SOLUTION TO
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY!
By Rabbi Moshe Yoseph
Koniuchowsky
Part Three On
Israel’s Exciting, and Glorious End Time
Restoration!
The hideous falsehood known as replacement
theology has been a cancer in theological
circles for the past two millennia that just
seems to refuse to go away. While
replacement theology takes on different
applications, and modes, it is a theology
originated by the early non Jewish fathers
of the so called "Christian Church". It
coldly states that a new Rome centered, and
Roman based ecclesiastical organization
called "the church", is the "new Israel".
This new Israel, would now forever replace
Jewish Israel, since Yehowah permanently
rejected the Jews for killing their Messiah,
His Son. Extreme proponents of replacement
theology have even gone so far as to claim
that Yehowah, the mean, and cruel despot, was
the Elohim of the Old Covenant Jews, as
opposed to Yahshua who is the forever
loving, kind,, and compassionate Elohim who
had REPLACED Yehowah AS LORD OF "THE CHURCH"
OR THE SO CALLED "NEW ISRAEL". In other
words, Yahshua’s people have replaced the
Father’s people.
This hideous doctrine is by no means a small
theological side issue to be argued in a
local pub. It has been at the forefront of
antisemitism, Judeo-phobia,, and has fully
provided fuel for tragic historical events
such as the Spanish Inquisition, the
Catholic Crusades, the ouster of the Jews
from every European country, as well as the
Nazi holocaust. As history clearly
demonstrates, Martin Luther, and other
Protestant reformers blueprinted both the
call,, and the plans for the annihilation of
the Jewish nation from Europe,, and later
the world by providing "so called
Christians", with biblical justification to
perpetrate genocide on world Jewry. Adolph
Hitler knew full well that he could find
theological approval, and support from these
church folks. The inbred functionalism of
this spiritual cancer amongst those that
preach Yahshua is so widespread that it
cannot be fully reversed, and eliminated
until Yahshua’s millennial reign begins
shortly when He returns to the earth. Even
such seemingly benign church doctrines such
as "Kingdom Now" theology or "Dominion"
theology, where the so called "church" will
christianize the world through the
establishment of the bible as a global
constitution,, and whereby all world powers,
and authorities will be won to,, and taken
over by Christendom, are nothing more than
new attempts at replacing the "troublesome
Jews". Wasn’t this flawed global
christianization program, whereby Yahshua
would merely take over a globally loyal
populace converted through church efforts,
already tried numerous times? Historically
they were called the Crusades, Inquisitions,
,and Pogroms. Was it not the Crusaders who
were attempting to take the globe by the
sword, ,and convert, and subdue it by the
gospel?
The theology of "Dominion Now" or "Kingdom
Now", is nothing but a papal farce, designed
to enlist Protestants in a new age attempt
to liquidate the Jewish race, by theology
rather than by a sword.
They believe twentieth century man will not
respond favorably to any elimination of the
Jewish nation via bloodletting. Therefore in
these last days, we see a major resurgence
in "church" theology, designed to subdue,
and eliminate the Jew. In these various
applications of replacement theology, the
Jew has no future whatsoever unless he
agrees to become one with "the church", and
assimilate his precious customs, feasts,
seventh day Sabbaths,, and the rest of his
national identity through incorporation or
more accurately through disappearance, and
integration within "the church".
These hideous theologies call anything
Jewish to be anti Christ, and legalistic.
Jewish practices are not welcome in their
church systems. It is simply fascinating to
me that "the church" has this insatiable
desire to institute biblical law, and church
sovereignty over the globe by spreading
Yehowah’s laws, when one of the major errors
within Christianity is the very rejection,
and the denial of the validity of first
covenant instruction in New Covenant times.
The so called "church" system has
repeatedly, and pridefully proclaimed to its
adherents that the Torah or the laws of
first covenant Israel are passed away,, and
nailed to the cross,, and have therefore
been replaced by the second covenant law,
which is love, baby, love. In other words,
this man made ecclesiastical organization
started, funded,, and headquartered in Rome,
now wants to force their paganized
Christendom down the throats of the worlds
populace, with obedience to THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS,, and other teachings all based
on the Decalogue, all the while instructing
her very own members that it is
not applicable to the New Covenant
"church". Now you talk about confusion! How
can a man made ecclesiastical system that is
boastfully, and wrongfully antinomian
(anti-Torah), at it’s very core theology,
force the world’s populace to submit to
rules, and regulations that they themselves
loath as having preceded from the Jewish
despot named Yehowah,, and His Jews? Remember
that in true replacement theology a pagan
blonde haired, and blue eyed European, pork
eating Jesus (the English translation of the
sun deity Zeus), has replaced Yehowah the
Father as LORD (from the pagan deity
Lourdes), over his "church" (from the pagan
circular ritual conducted by the Celts).
The most disturbing part of all this is that
replacement theology continues to spread
overtly, and covertly in these last days
seemingly unchecked, and undetected by born
again folks of all denominations, as well as
by Messianic Jews. As this study progresses
you will find, and discover the alarming
fact that modern day Messianic Judaism has
in most cases fallen into the same trap of
replacement theology that they loath, and
despise. Messianic Judaism has every right
to loath replacement theology. However
through error, and pride they not only
forsake the true solution to the error of
replacement theology, (which is readily
available by studying the scriptures
accurately with an open mind), but worse
yet, they have unknowingly become
accomplices to the doctrine itself.
Before we demonstrate the biblically
prescribed means for the elimination of this
hideous creed, we will learn a few more
insights into this doctrine of replacement
theology. The first error of this false
doctrine is that the church has replaced
Israel (the Jews) as the historic
continuation of the people of Israel.
According to this line of reasoning, Jewish
Israel ceased from being a people, with a
historic relevancy to Yehowah at Pentecost in
33 AD. In other words, a total cessation of
all eternal promises, and blessings which
had been promised to the Jews, had come
about because of the New Covenant "church",
who unilaterally declared the first covenant
promises to the Jews null, and void. The
truth of course is that the physical
descendents of Abraham, Isaac,, and Jacob,
had, and will continue to have a crucial,
and vital role in the historical, and
redemptive purposes of the Father.
Replacement theology declares that the Jews
are no different than any other people
group,, and that their chosen
status was self appointed,, and has ceased
when their "European" non Jewish
(Jesus) went to the cross.
The truth of course is that no other nation
before or since has been earmarked by Yehowah
to work out His redemptive, and earthly
will, as has Israel (12 tribes). Replacement
theology teaches that unless or until Jews
get saved, they are cursed, and have no
future or national calling, unless they
willingly join, and incorporate themselves
into the man-made "church". This fallacy
teaches that unsaved Jews are lower than
other unsaved peoples from other
nationalities because they are in fact the
murderers of Yahshua, and therefore
eternally guilty of deocide. The truth is of
course just the opposite. Even in their
unbelief they are favored,, and have given
life, and hope to the world by their
preservation of the Word of Yehowah, in their
role of guardians (Romans 3:2),, and in
their re-habitation of the waste places of
the land of Israel. Romans 11:15 reminds us
that even in their status as unbelieving
Jews, that the world was reconciled to
Yehowah by that very status. Romans 11:15
then talks about the dawn of a new day when
Jewish Israel will be raised from the dead
spiritually to receive favor. Romans 11:26
is a clear reminder that all Israel (Judah &
Ephraim) will be saved! Does that sound like
a people permanently replaced, and with no
future outside of the Roman Church, and her
harlot offspring? Jewish Israel has been,
and will continue to be supernaturally
preserved for the revelation to her of her
beloved Messiah Yahshua, in whose Name they
have suffered so very much. His return will
bring them much love, even as His first
advent has brought them so much sorrow from
the "so called church".
Replacement theology states that starting in
33 AD at Shavuot or Pentecost, the Jews
inherited all the curses of the Torah found
in Deuteronomy chapters 28-33, while
keeping none of the promised blessings
outlined in those same chapters. The
promises of blessing has been separated from
the curses, with the curses falling upon
Jewish Israel, and naturally the blessings
falling into the lap of the Pontiff Maximus
( Supreme Divine King), the unholy father in
Rome, and his disciples. "The church"
superimposes a doctrine called "the birth of
the church at Pentecost", to justify this
separation between Jewish cursing, and
Christian blessing. The truth is that the
clear promises of blessing to Jewish/Israel
are often unconditional, such as the promise
of the land of Israel. He has never revoked
this promised land blessing. Taken to its
false, and illogical conclusion if the
church is the new Israel replacing Jewish
Israel as the chosen people, then "the
church" is the rightful owner of the land of
Israel, since the land was a blessing, and
not a curse. According to popery, (which
by the way still does not recognize either
the modern state of Israel or the set
apart city of Jerusalem), the land of
Israel belongs to them, since they are
now Israel instead of or in place of Jewish
Israel. If your blood is boiling by now
welcome to the club. In Protestant circles
even in some Hebrew Christian circles ( a
dying dinosaur if there ever was one), the
eternal unconditional promise of Eretz
Yisrael to all Israel (12 tribes including
the Jews), is often referred to as the
Palestinian Land Covenant. Did you catch
that terminology? Despite the living reality
of the modern state of Israel, many within
the so called "church", have, and continue
to refer to Israel as Palestine, named after
the Palestinians the modern day descendents
of the Philistines who were the ancient
enemies of Israel. No wonder the
unregenerate pope refuses to recognize
Jerusalem, since according to Rome’s
replacement theology,, and her privately
trained seers, very shortly the Vatican will
be moving her headquarters, or at least
attempt to, to Jerusalem. After all if the
"church" has replaced Jewish Israel, she
needs a Jewish capital to govern from
thereby sealing this replacement not only of
a people but also of her eternal capital.
Rest assured the King of the Jews will not,
ever allow that to happen despite the
wishful thinking of papists,, and
ecumenical supporters worldwide. For a
more favorable treatment of Romanism why not
study Revelation chapters 17 through 19,,
and see if perhaps the Heavenly Father, (the
true Holy Father), is more loving, and
tolerant toward false apostate Roman
ecclesiastical heresy than Your Arms To
Israel. (Just Kidding)!
Replacement theology has the chutzpah
(nerve) to teach that the scriptures must be
read spiritually, and absolutely not taken
literally, since to do so would force one to
conclude that Jewish Israel is an eternally
chosen, and recognizable people with a
special calling, and a special land, over,
and above all the peoples of the globe. In
order for the students of scripture to be
made to believe in the doctrine of
replacement theology, a demand is made upon
them to understand that the promises made to
Jewish Israel must not be taken literally.
In other words when the first
covenant uses terms like, Zion, Temple,
Jerusalem, promised land, they are all now
synonyms for the so called "church".
This craziness has also settled itself in
publishing houses that publish scripture.
The BB Kirkbride Company in Indiana that
publishes the widely used Thompson Chain
Reference Bible, has multiple chapter
captions in Isaiah, and other first covenant
books that read "Isaiah comforts the
church", or "the church is consoled".
Time out! When or where did the church
exist in Isaiah’s day? I have even heard
Christian teachers state that if Adam, and
Eve hadn’t fallen into original sin, that
they would have had continual "church" with
Elohim. Can you believe that? Taken
to its illogical conclusion Adam, and Eve
went to church until they were thrown out of
the Garden of Eden.
The truth is simple, and Yehowah is not
psychotic. When He uses the term Jerusalem,
it is a literal city He has in mind. When He
refers to the nation of Israel, it is the12
tribes He has in mind. When He refers to the
Jews, it is the Jews He has in mind. When He
refers to Zion, it is the land, and Mt.
Moriah He has in mind. These are all literal
terms, and titles of different, concepts,
places, and locations. To boldly, and
incorrectly teach that these are all
interchangeable, and synonymous terms for
the "so called Christian church", is an
outright attack on the literal
infallibility,, and inspiration of
scripture, let alone a direct attack on the
Heavenly Father’s linguistic intelligence!
This doctrine is so deeply imbedded in
"church" circles of all denominations, that
unless the biblical final solution to this
mess is applied immediately, and without
reservation, then we must await the arrival
of Yahshua Himself to teach us correctly.
(Two excellent works on this subject are
"Our Hands Are Stained With Blood" by
Dr. Michael Brown,, and The Road To
Holocaust by Hal Lindsey, where the
above facts are totally documented with
direct quotes, and actions of the early
"church" fathers). The problem with waiting
for Yahshua to straighten things out at His
return, is that by then we will be judged by
Yahshua at His return. He reminds us that by
our words we will be justified, and by our
words (teachings ) we will be condemned
(Matt. 12:37). In James (Yaakov 3:1),Yahshua
reminds us that not many should seek to be
teachers of scripture, since we will receive
the greater judgment for the errors we
dispense. Rav Shaul (Paul), also confirms
this truth when he declares that if we are
willing to judge ourselves we will not be
judged by our Master Yahshua (First
Corinthians 11:31).
Replacement theology must be cleaned up, and
must be cleaned up immediately. That is
beyond question but the problem for true
pure hearted believers everywhere is how?
The urgency of the moment cries out for a
bible based solution!
In our attempt to correct this problem we
must first demonstrate that replacement
theology is fueled, and nurtured by a false
belief system that declares via various
teachings that the "church" is the New
Covenant bride of Yehowah, when scripture
over, and over talks about Israel,, and
Israel alone being Yehowah’s bride. In order
for Yehowah to be true to His Word, and not
break the scriptures about covenant marriage
faithfulness, He cannot have two brides,
neither can He set aside, and divorce one
group of people in place of, or in favor of
another. To do that He would have to
violate, and break literally hundreds of
scriptures where He cautioned mankind not to
practice spiritual adultery through double
devotion. Yahshua stated that the Creator
did not intend for mankind to dispose one
wife in favor of another (Matt.19:3-8).
If the so called "church" is a separate
entity from Israel (12tribes), then we are
faced with Yehowah being a practicing
spiritual adulterer, with two brides called
the Jews, and "the church". This would
violate the scriptural principal that Yehowah
only has had one bride called to covenant
faithfulness in order that through the set
apartness of that one bride, His witness
would go forth in the earth. The one people
known as His bride can produce multiple
witnesses on Yehowah’s behalf, but they
must all proceed from the same nation or the
same people. If something man made
called the "church", really does exist, then
how can we explain Yahshua’s words where He
tells us that when all is said, and done,
through His blood atonement,, and redemption
that He, and His Father will be left not
with two flocks, but rather with ONE
(John 11:52, John 10:16)! In John 10:16,
Yahshua states that there will be one flock
not two. Starting in 325AD through the
blasphemous efforts of Constantine, and his
cohorts, the non Jewish disciples divorced
themselves from their believing Jewish
brethren, forsook the teachings of the
eyewitness apostles, (Shabbat, Passover,
celebration of the resurrection of Yahshua
on the Feast of First Fruits or Bikkurim),
in favor of a new blend of Messianic faith,
with the Roman emperor as Pontificus Maximus
(pope), which naturally was Constantine,
leading the way. Thus were established two
flocks claiming Yahshua as Elohim. One legal
with apostolic sanction, instruction, and
teaching, and one whose loyalty was split
between faith, and state, between Yahshua,
and Miriam (Mary), between Yehowah the Son,
and the invincible sun, and its forbidden
worship! This new flock made a total
divorce, and separation from their believing
Jewish brethren who upheld the sanctity of
Torah, and the glory of Messiah. Thus many
early divorcees in this new breakaway flock
mixed or synchronized sun worship with Son
worship, bringing the two into a perverted
form of Messianic pantheism, where all is
Elohim, and Elohim is all. In this
perversion Yahshua shares His glory with
myriads of saints, statues, beads, idols,
and His mother!
The sad history of this breakaway, illegal,
and renegade flock is well documented in any
world book or encyclopedia, and space does
not allow for further elaboration on this
historical fact. An overwhelming desire to
practice such amalgamated worship as well as
hate Jews, gave birth to this cult. This
flock even went so far as to say that the
Messianic Scriptures that were written
primarily to declare Yehowah’s faithfulness
in fulfilling the promise of Messiah to His
people Israel, was a New Testament
replacing an Old one, thereby breaking
the continuity, and relevancy of all of
scripture! The anti-Semitic terms (Old, and
New Testament), were first used, and later
propagated by Jerome in his translation of
the scriptures into the Latin vulgate, where
the term New Testament first appeared. The
truth of course is that there is nothing new
about the New Covenant. It merely confirms
the continuity between the promise of
Messiah, and the fulfillment of that promise
through Messiah. It is a continuation of the
Torah!
The Elohim of Yisrael has one covenant
people who keep both covenants, celebrate
Yehowah’s Feasts, Yehowah’s Shabbat, and who
are eternally chosen by grace through faith.
The Elohim Of Israel has had, does now have,
and will always have only one people
that He chose to be married to, and that is
Israel. Israel means an overcoming
victorious prince with Yehowah. He states
verbally as well as through principal, that
He only has one bride not two. If He doesn’t
have bad hair days, and doesn’t choose two
brides both named Israel, one day loving
one, and on another day loving the other,
then we are left to conclude that the
redeemed born again community of New
Covenant Messianic faith is the Israel of
Yehowah as Rav Shaul states in
Galatians 6:16. In this Israel of
Yehowah you will find both Jewish, and non
Jewish believers. All those from within the
nations that are redeemed by the blood of
Yahshua join the commonwealth of Israel,
where they are said to hold
literal citizenship (Ephesians 2:12-19).
Non Jewish believers (Ephraimites), join or
rejoin Israel, and by virtue of this
rejoining, restoration,
and rebuilding of David’s
fallen Tabernacle (Acts 15:14-16, Amos
9:8-11), Israel is alive, and well,
thriving, and flourishing under Yahshua,
Israel’s King. Those who claim to be "in the
church", or part of "the church", are
walking outside the recognized boundaries of
scriptural Israel.
The true born again body of New Covenant
Israel is a single commonwealth made up of
believing Jews, believing Ephraimites,
(Hosea1:10-11), as well as some perhaps true
Gentiles. However we must remember that the
Father’s primary stated purpose in sending
Yahshua as Messiah was to restore the
Tabernacle Of David which had fallen in
921BCE,, and to rebuild the goodly fair
olive tree of divinely planted Israel!
(Judah, and Ephraim according to Jeremiah
11:13-16). In Matthew 15:24, Yahshua
said He came only for the lost sheep of the
House of Israel. He did not say He came for
Jews or Gentiles. Remember that the
Greek word for Gentiles is ethnos,
which is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew
word Goyim. That is why your bible
does not always talk about the ten tribes of
Ephraim being saved through Yahshua. When
Yahshua saves the nations of the world
within that global net, guess who you will
find turning up? The individual descendents
of the ten northern tribes return as
individual members from amongst the nations
from whence they had been preserved
(Isaiah 49:5-6), and called out, no longer
recognizable or even identifiable as
Israelites. In Hosea 7:8, scripture states
of Ephraim/Israel that " Ephraim be-amim hue
yitbolel", which literally means "Ephraim
will be assimilated amongst the nations!
Notice it does not say
within Judah! According to the
Talmud this understanding is central, basic,
and paramount to any form of legitimate
Judaism. In Yebamot 17A, it states
"the lost ten tribes were legally
classified as Gentiles to all extents, and
purposes, even though they are destined to
return, at the present time they have the
status of non Jews, and that is how it
was prophesied their status would be".
Therefore any form or branch of Judaism
that fails to recognize that Ephraim has
become the last days Gentiles of the earth,
and of the nations, is a branch of Judaism
that denies a basic, and cardinal tenet of
the biblical Jewish faith since in this case
Talmud, and scripture agree!
Notice that contrary to claims that the ten
tribes were swallowed up by the modern day
Jewish people, the Jewish faith teaches the
opposite. It teaches that the ten tribes
became Gentiles in every legal sense of the
term. Please don’t get angry at Your Arms To
Israel for teaching this precious reality,
and deviating in this one point from the
rest of Messianic Judaism! In my prophetic
office, I must be loyal first, and foremost
to revealed scriptural truth, rather then
man made steering committees. Go, and get
annoyed at many born again leaders, who
continue to tell so called "Gentile
believers", that they are by no means
physical Israel, and that they are
at best something called "spiritual Israel",
and at worst associate members, who cannot
vote, and who have no legitimate right to be
called returning Israel, since that right
is reserved only for Judahites, those
descended from just three tribes!
If you are a congregational leader who
finally sees the truth about true New
Covenant Israel being composed of the
ongoing reunification of the two houses of
Israel, then write to us, and we will enlist
your assembly into the Union of Two House
Messianic Congregations immediately with no
questions asked or long forms to be filled
out, as you enlist in the fastest growing
Messianic organization in the world, made up
of Israelites from both houses along with
grafted in Gentiles, who become Israel
upon their engrafting!
In light of this reality, His people are the
one single born again people of Israel, who
are spiritually saved, and redeemed, but
who also have legitimate claims to being
physically descended from Abraham, Isaac,,
and Jacob. The second breakaway,
renegade outlaw flock, that called
themselves "the church", would not have had
this need to be Israel, and replace the Jews
as Israel, if they would have had this
revelation that most of them were already
physical Israel. They would not have been in
such a hurry to divorce themselves from
their Jewish believing brethren, and their
Hebraic roots. James in James 1:1, does not
write to two communities of New Covenant
faith, rather he addresses the body of
Yahshua as the 12 tribes. In First
Corinthians 10:1-9, Rav Shaul (Paul) a
Jewish Rabbi, and completed Pharisee, stated
that the physical fathers of the Corinthian
assembly or ekklessia, were the very ones
that along with his physical fathers
(notice in verse one the term "our"),
left Egypt, and disobeyed Yehowah in the
wilderness. Over, and over again the
inspired writings of the Renewed (second)
Covenant through Messiah teach us that
Yahshua came to set up His ekklessia or His
called out assembly. Since He along with all
other New Covenant writers were inspired to
write about the one single flock or
called out assembly known as Israel
(Galatians 6:16), therefore any other
flock must be illegal, fleshly, and
illegitimate. Once we ascertain that
Yehowah is not in any shape, form, or manner,
a practicing, and confused polygamist, then
we can recognize what scripture clearly
teaches. We will find that non Jewish
believers in Yahshua (Ephraim), were called
to leave behind their penchant for paganism,
and join the redeemed Jewish people in New
Covenant Israel. It was not, and is not the
Father’s will for believing Jews to leave
Israel, and all that that entails, by
joining something manmade, and
unrecognizable to the believing Jew, as well
as to Yehowah Himself. The called out
believers from the nations (Ephraim), as
well as those Jews called out of traditional
Rabbinical Judaism, are called in scripture
the ekklessia of Yahshua. Remember
that Yahshua came to save Jews from sin not
from Judaism.
Once we have a proper understanding about
the term ekklessia used scores of times in
the Messianic Scriptures, then we will have
our final solution to the disgraceful
disease of replacement theology!
Everywhere our English bibles use the word
or the phrase "church", it is a terrible
translation, mistranslation, and perverted
understanding of the inspired Greek word
ekklessia, along with its intended
original meaning. The English translators as
well as earlier monks, and papists, took the
word ekklessia which literally, and quite
simply means "the ones called out", or a
"called out assembly", and translated the
word as "church". The result of this
terrible action gave license to the early
Jew haters of the 4th century AD,
to pin this unscriptural moniker (church) on
themselves, thereby allowing themselves
("non Jewish "believers"), to reorganize,
and reconstitute themselves under
Constantine, and his amalgamation of
Messianic faith with sun, and emperor
worship. These breakaway renegades proudly
used this word "church" derived from
the word "kirch" of Celtic pagan origin, to
SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE NEW COVENANT
COMMUNITY OF MESSIANIC FAITH, KNOWN
INTERCHANGEABLY AS ISRAEL, THE NAZARENES OF
ISRAEL, OR THE "WAY" OF ISRAEL.
This separate breakaway entity based in
Rome, then declared herself to be the new,
and improved Israel, the true Israel that
had arrived to do Yahshua’s will, and
eliminate Jewish Israel by any means
including the sword. This separate entity
did not recognize Yehowah as the Sovereign
who sent The Son they claimed to love. This
separate entity changed the Feasts, dietary
laws, and the Sabbaths of Yehowah, and
claimed to have no ties whatsoever with
Jewish Israel. This separate entity wrestled
the title of Israel away from the early
Messianic community that included all
nations, and stated that the saved remnant
of the Jewish nation was not welcome as Jews
in this renegade separate entity. This
separate entity called itself "the
church", and its adherents were called
Christians. Acts 11:26 confirms this
truth by stating that the early disciples
were first called Christians.
Notice that Yehowah never called born again
Israelites by that name, rather it
was man who called non Jewish believers
Christians. Later these non Jewish "so
called Christians", separated into the
separate entity that for the next two
millennia would be called "the church". With
two separate entities vying for the much
treasured title of Israel, is it any wonder
that Jewish Israel has become the victim
rather than the covering for Messianic
faith?
Keeping in mind that the Greek word for
church is ekklessia, we will allow
scripture, and history to explain to us that
ekklessia in Greek was understood by all the
writers of inspiration to be a reference to
Israel, and the people of Israel.
Approximately 150 years before Yahshua the
blessed Holy One was born in Bethlehem of
Judea, seventy of the leading traditional
non Messianic rabbis got together to
translate the Hebrew Tanach (First Covenant)
from Hebrew which was the original language
of inspiration, to the widely spoken common
Greek language which was the universal
language of that time. The translation
produced became know as the Septuagint in
honor of the seventy scholars who translated
the work.
Every time the 70 traditional rabbis came to
the Hebrew words Kehilah, Kehelat or Adat,
they without fail translated the words into
the Greek word "ekklessia". This same word
is translated in English as "church" in the
Brit Chadashah.
Kehela, Kehelat, and Adat are all titles
used to designate Yehowah’s single covenant
people, Israel. In both covenants whenever
ekklessia is used in either the Hebrew
Septuagint or the Greek New Covenant, it
never refers to any group other than twelve
tribe Israel! From a linguistic
standpoint alone, the word ekklessia could
not mean "church". The assembly or
congregation or gathering of Israelites
was, is, and always will be the
ekklessia.
Some modern translations are at long last
correcting previous erroneous English
translations. More, and more newer
translations have thankfully eliminated the
term "church", and are rendering ekklessia
correctly as assembly. Following that same
line of understanding into the Messianic or
New Covenant scriptures, we see that all
references to ekklessia or the ekklessia of
Yahshua, or the ekklessia in Yehowah, means
the assembly of Yehowah. Since He is the
Yehowah-Elohim of Israel, the born again
community of faith are the people of Yehowah,
or the people of Israel. The people of
Israel make up a single flock that hears the
Good Shepherd’s voice, and obeys His
commandments (Rev. 22:14).
So we see that Satan knowing this concept of
one flock, attempted to erase the Jewish
people by having them join the manmade
"church", in order to pull them out of
national Israel, and turn them into Roman
citizens loyal to paganism. The idea being
if all Jews that are saved join a man made
institution, they will lose their Jewish
nationality, and within a few generations
genocide will in effect have subtly taken
place. (Of course when this plan didn’t work
Satan tried the old forced baptism, and
forced conversion method done at the point
of a sword!)
The truth of the whole matter is that the
opposite holds true. All peoples, tongues,
and tribes are called to join believing
Israel, as the true divinely created, and
ordained ekklessia of Israel. In this
divinely sanctioned version of New Covenant
Israel, all paganism, and foreign detestable
idols should be left at the door, and not
brought to the altar. In Matthew 16:18,
Yahshua tells Keefa (Peter), that the
Heavenly Father had given Keefa divine
revelation that Yahshua the Messiah would
build His ekklessia against
which the gates of hell would not, and could
not prevail. The word here translated
"church" is ekklessia in the Greek. Yahshua
is in essence saying that national Israel’s
elders, and leadership, were vainly trying
to rebuilt, and restore Israel by their own
manmade rules, and efforts. Satan
continually prevailed against that version
of Israel. Yahshua on the other hand would
build His version of the ekklessia (Israel),
and that that Israel would continually
overcome all the forces of Satan, and of
darkness. Traditional replacement theology
points to Matt.16:18, as some sort of proof
text that Yahshua was about to create, and
built something new called "the church", and
furthermore that it would be something that
the Jews because of their unbelief would
have to deal with. What hogwash, and
popycock that is! Had He intended to built a
church, He would have said so, don’t you
think? Instead He told this Israelite
named Keefa (Peter), that He (Yahshua),
would build a successful enough, and strong
enough ekklessia of Israel, that would
survive the onslaught of the gates of hell.
What a difference! In Acts 7:38 Stephen the
first Israelite martyr (not "church" martyr,
since scripturally speaking "the church"
never existed), confirms this marvelous
truth. He states that Moshe Rabainu or Moses
was with the ekklessia on Mt Sinai receiving
the Torah. Stephen here refers to the
giving of the Torah to the ekklessia
of Israel. In the King James Version,
and others as well, it states that "this is
he who was in the church in the wilderness".
Now either Moses went to church at Mt Sinai,
or the word ekklessia means that Moses was
with the assembly of Israel when he was
called up to receive the
Torah. Stephen the first New
Covenant Israelite martyr (not church
martyr), understood the same thing as
Yahshua, and all the other writers of New
Covenant scripture. That the ekklessia that
would mushroom into the global Kingdom of
Yehowah, was Israel reborn, rebuilt,
reconstructed, and renewed! In none of
the aforementioned verses or anywhere else
in the New Covenant for that matter, is
there any divine authority or sanction given
for the creation of a separate entity called
"the church", the Gentile church, the
Gentile Christian church, or the non
Jewish church, for that matter.
The prophet Jeremiah confirms this
everlasting truth in Jeremiah chapter
31:verses 31-34, where he prophecies that
the New Covenant will be cut with both
houses of Israel, in order to forgive
sin, and internalize Torah through the Brit
HaLev (circumcision of the heart). These
verses say nothing about the New Covenant
being cut with anyone else, though other
scriptures do in fact teach the salvation of
the "Gentile" nations that enter into this
NEW ISRAELITE COVENANT!
Therefore last days ministries that are for
the most part sincere, and working very hard
to reconcile "the church", and the Jews, are
wasting their time at best, and are in fact
becoming part of the problem as opposed to
part of the solution. This ministry to "the
church", is in itself a defacto false
recognition that there is a separate
"Gentile" entity apart from Israel called
the church. HOW CAN YOU, AND I HAVE A
MINISTRY OR MINISTER TO AN ENTITY THAT IS
TOTALLY FICTITIOUS? LET’S GET SERIOUS!
The only ministry acceptable to the Heavenly
Father is a ministry to the victims
of the manmade ecclesiastical system called
"the church", in order to gently rebuke,
reprimand, and correct them unto repentance,
by renouncing separate entity theology, and
practice, and by bringing them back into New
Covenant Israel, where everyone is welcome,
and where everyone follows Yahshua, and
honors His Torah! That is true biblical
teshuvah! In this New Covenant Israel,
the true middle wall of partition is
permanently crushed.
Let me caution those involved in ministries
who in much good will are trying hard to
make these two separate entitles learn how
to love, and get along with each other.
These two separate entities with separate
loyalties (Jerusalem, and Rome), and
separate Sabbaths, separate Feast days,
separate thinking towards the land of
Israel, are not divinely mandated to get
along since they represent two different
kingdoms, and two different spirits! One
represents the Kingdom Of Light, the other
the kingdom of darkness, and shadows. Cease,
and desist from your work of flesh whereby
you lean on your own understanding, or even
worse on traditional understanding of just
who Israel is, and is not. It is the
Father’s revealed will, to have one flock
with total unity, not two flocks with some
common similarities, and some common areas
of ecumenical understanding.
Stop! Cease, and desist!! If you are
really sent by Yehowah to the "church", which
is a separate entity without divine
sanction, it will not be to schmooze them
into liking the Jews, and supporting your
ministry, rather it will be to call them out
of that system, BACK INTO THE
COMMONWEALTH OF ALL ISRAEL, HER MESSIAH, AND
HER ETERNAL PRECEPTS! Repent to the
Father for a lack of understanding of your
true call. You may have meant well, but what
in fact you have been doing is continuing to
nurture separate entity theology, which is
the very oxygen that feeds, and enflames the
nefarious fires of replacement theology,
which you claim to loath, and despise.
There is one people of New Covenant Israel
called the ekklessia or the Israel of Yehowah
(Galatians 6:16), and it is up to you, and I
to became part of the solution by bringing
to an end the claims of another renegade,
pagan saturated, illegal, compromising
man-made made system called "the church".
Isn’t
it ironic that my Messianic Jewish
brothers who hate replacement theology the
most, and would love to put a final end to
its proliferation, are teaching the very
same doctrines that guarantee its survival.
By teaching that the body of Yahshua is made
up of Gentile believers known as "the
church", and by Jewish believers known as
Messianic Jews or Israel, they are virtually
helping to spread the belief that these two
separate mystical, and mysterious
ecclesiastical bodies, become one in
Yahshua. How could that be if one of the
entities uses Torah as an instruction
manual, and honors Yehowah’s Feasts, while
the other entity burns Torahs, and refers to
anything from Torah as Jewish legalism. Amos
3:3 clearly reminds us "how can two walk
together except they be agreed? You cannot
take two entities, and simply name, and
claim unity, while both entities have no
plans to adopt a single code of conduct
(Torah), and while most of the time these
two entities are to busy trying to replace,
convert, deny or even annihilate the other
entity. As long as you have two
brides, and two separate entities called
"the Gentile church", and "the Jews"
(Israel), you will continue to have an
ongoing battle royal over the title of
Israel, with each staking its claim to be
the real, and the true Israel at the expense
of the other, with each side having its own
collection of "proof texts".
Please my brethren. Be honest with
yourselves, and with your own hearts. Your
intentions may have been the best, but all
the while you have been trying to create
unity between oil, and water,, and have
further accelerated the spread of the
disease of replacement theology, that you
claim to despise. The time must end
immediately for Messianic Jewish leadership
to be threatened by the scriptural truth of
the two houses of Israel, which is in no
way, shape or form replacement theology, but
rather the permanent, and lasting solution
to it! Only a revelation of who
Ephraim/Israel is today, will allow you to
spend your time building, and rebuilding the
Tabernacle Of David. I call heaven, and
earth this day to record my prophetic call
to the leaders of Messianic Judaism, of
which I am a part, and who I consider to be
my co-laborers, and friends, to recognize
their unwilling proliferation of replacement
theology, by withholding Israelite
recognition to non Jewish believers as
Ephraim/Israel, who in the most
part are willing to live with Judah, not
attempt to replace Judah. Withholding their
true Israelite identity from them is sinful,
and is labeled vexation of a brother in
Isaiah 11:13-14! This vexation has fooled
Ephraim into looking for his acceptance in
an ecclesiastical field of dreams, that
unfortunately is laced with paganism! When
Messianic Jews grant the other House of
Israel their rightful place, Isaiah 11:13
states that Ephraim (saved non Jewish
believers), will feel the love, and
acceptance from Judah, and no longer cause
the Jewish people further problems. There it
is clearly outlined in Isaiah 11:1-16, and
specifically verses 12-13, which are
Yehowah’s outline for the end of the "church"
versus "the Jewish" blood bath, and battle!
True two house theology has no room for
replacement theology in it, because it
refuses to recognize a false system called
"the church", as separate from Israel.
MESSIANIC NAZARENE YISRAELITES HAVE NO
TOLERANCE FOR REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY!
Messianic Jewish leaders must see the
teaching on the two houses of a single
people called Israel (not two entities), as
the permanent final solution to replacement
theology. Continuing refusal to accept the
biblical, historic, and Talmudic truth of
two still divided houses, with the House
of Ephraim having been turned into hundreds
of millions of Gentiles, as their
punishment for paganism, will result in
Messianic Judaism continuing to chase its
proverbial tail in futile attempts to abort
replacement theology!
True born again church folks must shed their
orphan Annie religious clothing,, and man
made designations such as Baptist, Lutheran,
Methodist, Presbyterian, non denominational,
or non affiliated,, and yes even Catholic,,
and call themselves what scripture calls
them. Returning Israelites,
who were lost before Yahshua found, and
saved them. Settling for anything less than
the title of Israel, with their picture
restored back into the family album, will
only proliferate the venomous teachings that
have been brought about by their blindness
to their Israelite identity. Two house
restoration truth is the cure for
denominationalism as well, which is nothing
but a heartfelt expression of born again
believers crying out for some sort of
corporate identity, and belonging!
Awake, and arise oh House Of Israel so long
ago outcast, and dispersed, and come out of
the "church system" by returning to your
brother Judah as an equal heir at the table
of fellowship in Messiah’s New Covenant
Israel!
More, and more Messianic Jewish rabbis are
seeing two house theology as the pure final
scriptural, and authoritative end to the two
thousand year old problem of replacement
theology. But unfortunately there are still
those who see two house theology (Judah, and
Ephraim), as the cause of replacement
theology! Shame on you for believing the
party line birthed in fear, rather than in
the faith of Yehowah as He outlined the plan
for Israel’s full, and glorious restoration
in our day! Remember the party line is
usually not correct. Remember the party line
used to be that Jews cannot, and will not
trust Yahshua. Boy have we seen that myth go
to a deservedly quick grave. In like manner
the myth that two house theology is another
form of Christian replacement theology,
will, and is already dying a rapid, and well
deserved death. As Bob Dylan once sang:
"The times they are a changin!", and they
are changing for the better.
As we know or should understand, error
begets error. Or to put it another way the
rejection of truth breeds error. The
teaching of separate entity theology has
brought most of Yahshua’s body to attempt to
band-aid this breech of scriptural two house
truth, by installing a new heresy. This new
heresy is called the physical, and spiritual
Israel theory. This teaching is a frivolous
attempt to explain away the self inflicted
results, and wounds of separate entity
theology. This heresy states that the
"church" is spiritual Israel,
all the while the Jewish people, and
specifically the Messianic Jews are
physical Israel. Why is this teaching
wrong? Because it still leaves us
with the unsolvable problem of two Israel's,
and wrongfully portrays Yehowah as a lustful
spiritual adulterer! Furthermore the
spiritual versus physical Israel heresy
cannot be accurate, because in order for
physical Israel to be acceptable to the
Father they must also become spiritual
through the new birth. Also everyone who
claims to be spiritual Israel, in the so
called "church", are all physical beings who
really do exist. This popular theory is full
of flaws, and is not the solution we are
looking for.
The devil doesn’t really give a hoot if you
call one entity ("the church") spiritual
Israel, and the Jews, physical Israel. As
long as you don’t recognize the body of
YAHSHUA AS A SINGLE ENTITY, THAT IS
SIMULTANEOUSLY BOTH PHYSICAL, AND SPIRITUAL
ISRAEL, IN ONE BLOOD BOUGHT, AND PRECIOUS
BODY OF REDEEMED PEOPLE CALLED
ISRAEL!
Therefore any Messianic group or
congregation that truly wants to become part
of the final solution to this dual entity
problem, can do so by buying into the heaven
sent truth of a single people called Israel,
who are both physically descended from
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as
spiritually restored back to that very same
people by the blood of Messiah. If we
allow ourselves to return to the
clear dictate of scripture, then we will be
honored by Yehowah as part of the solution to
this ongoing problem. Remember! Separate
entity, or the "physical versus spiritual
Israel lie", is the very life giving oxygen
that fuels the nefarious consuming flames of
replacement theology. THE ONLY SCRIPTURAL
WAY TO END REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS TO REMOVE
THE MANMADE "ECCLESIASTICAL CHURCH SYSTEM,
AND CONCEPT", FROM OUR VOCABULARY,
TEXTBOOKS, SERMONS, AND THOUGHT!
If we remove one of the two competing
entities both claiming to be Israel, then
the battle is over. No one can
replace anyone else because we have finally
recognized that Yehowah is not a polygamist
allowing one bride to be Gentiles, or
spiritual Israel, and another to be
physical, or the "real Israel". If we come
to the true irrefutable recognition that
Yahshua has purchased one entity called
Israel, the ekklessia of the New Covenant,
then the jealousy, the warring, the
vexation, the disrespect, the haughty
attitudes, and all attempts at establishing
either of the two competing entities as
superior or more chosen, will finally, and
thankfully come to an abrupt,, and sudden
end. Then Judah, and Ephraim may tussle as
brothers in a sibling rivalry, within the
family of Israel, as all natural families
do, but that is a far cry from the murder
fueled by jealousy, coming from two separate
families, or entities!
If we straighten out our theology to
match up with scripture, we will be a
partaker in eliminating replacement
theology, by eliminating the oxygen that
feeds it which is separate entity
theology. By being a forerunner in
the restoration of this last days prophetic
truth, we will gain tremendous rewards in
heaven. By continuing to proliferate the lie
of so called physical,, and spiritual
Israel, we play right into the hands of
those who hate us so much, that they have
decided to eliminate us, by replacing us
through incorrect doctrine, for which
they do not have to do any jail time!
The preaching of the glorious gospel of
Yahshua, is the method by which,, and
through which the kingdom is being restored
to all Israel (Acts 1:1-8). The gospel is
designed to bring all nations into a single
entity called New Covenant Israel, or
the ekklessia of Yahshua. Verse 6 of
Acts:1, tells us that Israel’s restoration
was foremost on the minds of the remaining
eleven talmidim at the time of Yahshua's
ascension. He rebuked their desire to know
the timing of Israel’s full restoration, as
something that belonged only to the
Sovereign Father in heaven,, and then
proceeded to give them the formula or the
means by which the Kingdom would be restored
through the gospel. Verse 8 of Acts:1, tells
us this formula for building this single
entity known as Israel (both simultaneously
physical, and spiritual), will come to pass
by first going to the Jews or the House of
Judah found in Jerusalem, and Judea. Then
the eleven were told as we all are, to go to
Samaria (Ephraim’s former capital city),
which is a direct call from the Messiah to
seek out Ephraim, the other House of Israel!
All historians recognize the Samaritans as
having been descended form the Northern ten
tribes. Finally we are to go to the outer
most parts of the globe. Why? Because
according to Genesis 48:19, and Isaiah
11:12, this global search via gospel light,
will allow us to find the scattered sheep of
Israel, the outcast seed of Ephraim/Israel,
along with the dispersed seed of
Jewish/Israel. Together with the past
dispersions of Jewish/Israel, and the
obvious outcast status of Ephraim/Israel,
the globe is full of Israelite blood from
both houses, thereby the necessitating of "The
Great Commission" of Matthew 28:18-20.
If you belong to Yahshua by grace through
faith, then "EWE", must be one of
them! Yehowah designed the worldwide
preaching of the gospel to both redeem
individuals, all the while simultaneously
restoring Israel corporately. "O the riches,
and wisdom of Almighty Yehowah!"
The only solution then to replacement
theology, physical versus
spiritual Israel theology, and separate
entity theology, is the restoration of both
houses of Israel. The House of Judah,
Jewish/Israel, ,and the House of Israel,
Ephraim/Israel! (Study Hosea chapter one to
find out how Ephraim would turn up in the
last days as Gentiles,, and unite with saved
Jews, into one single body with the same set
of instructions (Torah), and the same
vision). Hosea chapter one verse 11, reminds
us that the day of Jezreal or the 12 tribal
re-gathering of Israel, will take place only
through Messiah’s establishment of Israel as
a single entity. Both houses will appoint
the same King over them (Yahshua), as well
as appoint the same teaching of King Messiah
(Torah), as their guidebook, and instruction
manual. The revelation of this last days
truth,, and the restoration of all
Israelites from both still divided houses,
will cause a cry of lament to proceed from a
reunited Israel, as is beautifully taught in
Hosea 2:1. We will see that non Jewish
believers, are really as much physical
Israelites as we ourselves are, and our
response to our Messianic Nazarene
Yisraelite brothers, and sisters of faith
will take on a new reality, as we see them
for who they really are. Not just spiritual
brothers or sisters, but flesh, and blood
physical Israelites, as chosen as
is Jewish/Israel!
This realization in both houses of Israel,
will give birth to the joyous, and wonderful
heartfelt cry of reunion. "O MY
PEOPLE! AMI"! This last days
revelation of the restoration of both houses
of Israel, will allow the spiritually
discerned to see their non Jewish
brothers in a new light. That light will
reveal Ephraim/Israelites as fellow redeemed
physical Israelites. That same light
will allow Ephraim to shed his temporal
denominational name tags, and in its place
reclaim the title of Israel that belonged to
them before 921BC, without having a
compulsion to replace the Jews. As
the scripture declares: "Truly great
is the day of Jezreal" (the re-gathering of
that which had been previously scattered!).
Ephraimites who still hold to replacement
theology are in desperate need of doctrinal
healing, and need a true heaven sent vision
of national Israelite unity. Their thinking
is sinful, and a major obstacle, and
stumbling block to the ultimate, and
glorious reunification of all Israel!
Where will you stand today?
With the two houses OF ISRAEL,
beautifully coming together into a single
flock through Yahshua our Messiah’s life
giving blood, or with the lies of separate
entity theology, and the spiritual versus
physical Israel theology, which remain the
twin oxygen tanks that allows replacement
theology to survive. The choice is yours!
As for me, and my house (Joshua 24:15), we
will serve Yehowah, and His eternal covenant
people Israel!
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