Rev 11:2 Leave out the court which is outside the temple and
do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations/guym; and they shall
tread underfoot the holy city for forty-two
months.
Firstly we must understand the word ‘guym’ which is
translated as gentiles, the word ‘Gentiles’ is a Latin word, This word,
“GENTILE”, originated from the Latin Vulgate translation, where the Roman
doctrine claimed that Rome had inherited the promises made to Yasharal, that
is, the Roman Church had become the “Yasharal” of the Bible. The inference of
the word, “Gentile”, in the Roman Catholic context, is one who is “not of
Rome”. In the English translations that were based upon the Latin Vulgate, this
Latin word has carried on with a similar meaning but instead of meaning
"not of Rome" it has become to mean "not of Yasharal".
The Latin noun gen means "a nation". However, the
word gentiles does not come from the noun but from the
adjective, gentilis, which means "of or belonging to a nation".
Strong’s
H1471 ‘guy’ (gamal uau yod) is from H1465 ‘guah’ (gamal uau hey) which means
‘his back’, that is, (by extension) the person: - body. The
picture is of someone who has turned his back on Alahym.
Strong’s
H1471 gives the definition of ‘guy’ as a foreign nation; hence a Gentile;
also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: -
Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
This is
not even close to what ‘guym/nation’ actually means and it’s all because of the
Latin Vulgate translation of the word as ‘gentiles’. The scriptures are its own
dictionary and we must seek the definition by a scripture vs scripture
translation.
Let’s
look at some Old Testament scriptures to see how the word is used:
Gen 12:2
And I shall make you/Abraham for a great nation/guy H1471, and I shall bless
you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing;
Was
Abraham the father of the nation of Yasharal or the father of pagans? So we see
the great/gadul guy/nation that Yahuah promises Abraham to be a father of is
Yasharal.
Gen 17:5
No longer shall your alaph tau name be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham; For I shall make you the father of a multitude/hamun of nations/guym
H1471.
Because
the Abary word ‘guy’ is used in it’s plural form the translators have assumed
that these are the nations of the world. What they fail to see is Yasharal is
made up of 12 tribes which are sometimes referred to as ‘guym/nations’.
Gen25:23
Yahuah said to her, Two nations/guym H1471 are in your womb; and two peoples
shall be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the
other people; and the older shall serve the younger
Yahuah
told Rebecca that two guym/nations are in her womb, the ones who came out from
her womb were Esau and Yaaqob, if Esau is considered to be a pagan guym/nation
then what about Yaaqob? Doesn’t the scripture stated two guym/nations are in
your womb? Could Rebecca have what would become two non-Yasharal “Gentiles” in
her womb? We must be consistent in our interpretation as Yaqoob and Esau were
both part of Yasharal called ‘guym/nations’.
Gen 46:3
He said, I am the El, the El of your father; do not be afraid to go down to
Egypt, for I shall make you/Yaaqob a
great nation/guy H1471 there.
Did
Yahuah tell Yaaqob to go to Egypt and he would make him a non-Yasharali
‘gentile’ nation there? Who went into Egypt and who came out of Egypt by
Yahuah’s strong and mighty arm? Yasharal of course.
Jer
31:36 If this fixed order departs from before Me, declares Yahuah, Then the
offspring of Yisrael also shall cease From being a nation/guy H1471 before Me
all the days.
If the
word nation here in Jer 31:36 means ‘gentiles’ it means that Yasharal would not
cease from being heathen to me. That’s absurd and inconsistency in interpreting
scriptures.
John 11:49
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You
know nothing at all,
John
11:50 nor consider that it is expedient for you that one man die for the
people, and that the whole nation/guy not perish.
Caiaphas
being the high priest prophesied that Mashiyach would die for the people and
that the whole nation/guy not perish. He definitely did not mean that Mashiyach
would die for the heathen nations as it is now believed on in Christianity?
Mat 1:21
“And she shall give birth to a Son, and you shall call His Name יהושע for He
shall save His people from their sins.”
When he
was born it was told to Yoseph that Yahusha would be the name of the child and
he shall save his people from their sins, not the heathen nations.
This was confirmed by Yahusha himself when he
said that he is the good shepherd and the good shepherd lays down his life for
the sheep.
‘’ Joh
10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.’’
And
Yahusha also clearly stated that he was sent but only to the lost sheep of the
house of Yasharal
Mat 15:24
And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the
house of Yisra’ĕl.”
The word
‘guah’ shows those of the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal who have turned
their backs to Yahuah.
The seemingly difficult passage:
Matt
10:5 These twelve Yahusha sent forth and commanded them, saying, Do not go in the way of the guym/gentiles,
and do not come in any city of the Samaritans;
Matt
10:6 but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Yisrael
Yahusha
told his twelve whom he chose not to go in the way of the guym/gentiles and not
into any city of the Samaritans but that they rather go to the lost sheep of
the house of Yasharal. This at first glance may seem to be a contradiction to
what we are studying here as seen in other scriptures the ‘guym’ are the lost
sheep of the house of Yasharal. Christians would quickly assume that that the
word ‘guym’ here used are the heathen nations but a closer look shows that the
12 whom Yahusha chose were to only go within the cities of Yasharal and not into
Galilee and the city of the Samaritans. In the passage above the city of the
Samaritans and Galilee was within Yasharal’s boundary and they were forbidden
to go there because Yahusha reserved these unto himself to fulfill prophecy.
Didn’t
Yahusha himself go into Galilee and the Samaritans?
Mat 4:12
And יהושע, having heard that Yoḥanan had been put in prison, withdrew
into Galil.
Mat 4:13
And leaving Natsareth, He came and dwelt in Kephar Naḥum,
which is by the sea, in the borders of Zeḇulun and Naphtali,
Mat 4:14
to fill what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying,
Mat 4:15
“Land of Zeḇulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea,
beyond the Yardĕn, Galil of the
gentiles/guym –
Mat 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat
in the land and shadow of death
The reason why Yahusha forbade his 12 to go to
the city of Samaritans because they refused the messengers he had sent unto
them ahead of him for which Yaaqob and Yahuchanan asked him whether they should
call down fire from heaven to destroy them? Little did they know that Yahusha
himself would go into the city of the Samaritans and would gather them as the
lost sheep of the house of Yasharal.
Luk 9:51
And it came to be, when the days of His taking up were being completed,
even He set His face to go to Yerushalayim,
Luk 9:52 and He sent messengers ahead of Him.
And they went and entered into a village of the Shomeronites/Samaritans, to
prepare for Him.
Luk 9:53 And they did not receive Him, because
His face was set for the journey to Yerushalayim.
Luk 9:54
And His taught ones, Yaʽaqoḇ and Yoḥanan, seeing it said, “Master, do You wish us
to command fire to come down from the heaven and destroy them, as also Ěliyahu
did?”
Luk 9:55 But having turned, He rebuked them and
said, “You do not know of what spirit you are,
Luk 9:56 for the Son of Aḏam did
not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went on to another
village.
The
Samaritans had invented an alternate way of worship, when the Turah said that
Yerushalam is the place to worship they chose Mt Gerizim as the place to
worship, this action was a continuation of
Yeroboam's policy of separating the ten northern tribes from the one true
Alahym at Jerusalem.
Moreover they intermarried foreign women a point of
contention between them and the pure blooded Yahudi’s, that continued down to
the woman at the well of John 4 who had 5 husbands and the one she was living
with was not her husband.
Joh 4:16 יהושע
said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
Joh 4:17 The woman
answered and said, “I have no husband.” יהושע
said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
Joh 4:18 for you have
had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. What you
have said is true.”
Joh 4:20 “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you
people say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.”
The Samaritans, therefore represented all the worst of the Yahudi’s
in that they opposed Alahym's choice of Daud/David, Yerushalam and polluted
their bloodlines which forever disqualified them from producing the Mashiyach.
In about 538 BC, after Yahudah returned from Babylonian captivity, the
Samaritans chose Mt. Gerizim as the location of sacrifice maybe because Yahuah
asked Yasharal to bless Mount Gerizim.
Deu 11:24 ‘Every place
on which the sole of your foot treads is yours: from the wilderness, and Leḇanon, from the
river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea is your border.
Deu 11:25 ‘No man
shall stand against you. יהוה your Elohim shall put the dread of you
and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, as He has spoken to you.
Deu 11:26 ‘See, I am
setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
Deu 11:27 the
blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה
your Elohim which I command you today;
Deu 11:28 and the
curse, if you do not obey the commands of יהוה
your Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after
other mighty ones which you have not known.
Deu 11:29 ‘And it shall be, when יהוה
your Elohim has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you
shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ěyḇal.
Jos 8:30 And
Yahushua/Joshua built an altar to יהוה
Elohim of Yisra’ĕl in Mount Ěyḇal,
Jos 8:31 as Mosheh
the servant of יהוה had commanded the children of Yisra’ĕl, as it is written in the
Book of the Torah of Mosheh, “an altar of unhewn stones over which no man has
wielded iron.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to יהוה,
and slaughtered peace offerings.
Jos 8:32 And there, in the presence of the children of
Yisra’ĕl, he wrote on the stones a copy of the Torah of Mosheh, which he had
written.
Jos 8:33 And all
Yisra’ĕl – the sojourner as well as the native – with their elders and officers
and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Lĕwites,
who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה.
Half of them were in front of Mount
Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ěyḇal, as Mosheh the servant of יהוה
had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Yisra’ĕl.
Jos 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the Torah,
the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of
the Torah.
Jos 8:35 There was not
a word of all that Mosheh had commanded which Yahushua/Joshua did not read
before all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, with the women, and the little ones, and
the sojourners who accompanied them.
We see Yahushua/Joshua obeying the words of Yahuah through
the mouth of Masha his servant to build an altar to Yahuah of unhewn stones on
Mount Eybal and then proclaim blessing to Mount Gerizim and curse Mount Eybal.
Deu 27:11 And Mosheh
commanded the people on that day, saying,
Deu 27:12 “These are
to stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the
Yardĕn: Shimʽon, and Lĕwi, and
Yehuḏah, and Yissasḵar, and Yosĕph, and
Binyamin.
Deu 27:13 “And these
are to stand on Mount Ěyḇal to curse: Re’uḇĕn, Gaḏ, and Ashĕr, and Zeḇulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
The blessings of obedience to Turah was proclaimed on Mount
Gerizim and the curses for disobeying Turah were proclaimed from Mount Eybal.
This mount Gerizim became Yerushalam of the Samaritans but Yahusha told the
woman…..
Joh 4:21 יהושע said to her,
“Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this mountain,
nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 “You worship what you do not know. We worship what
we know, because the deliverance is of the Yehuḏim.
Joh 4:23 “But the hour
is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him.
The division of the
10 tribes and the two tribes:
The Samaritans, influence by Yeroboam, adopted Shekem as
their home base with Mt. Gerizim as their "real Yerushalam"
We all know the story of Yeroboam how he was anointed king of
Yasharal and the 10 tribes broke away from the house of Daud/David because
Rehoboam, Solomon’s son did not heed the voice of the elders who asked him to
be gentle to the people who were put under the yoke of forced labor. The 10
tribes left his house and joined Yeroboam, Yeroboam greatly feared the union of
the the 10 tribes back to Daud’s house in Yahudah so he made two altars one he
placed in Bethel and the other in Dan.
1Ki 12:25 And Yaroḇʽam built Sheḵem in the mountains of Ephrayim, and dwelt there. And he went out from there and built Penu’ĕl.
1Ki 12:26 And Yaroḇʽam said in his
heart, “Now the reign shall return to the house of Dawiḏ.
1Ki 12:27 “If these
people go up to do slaughterings in the House of יהוה
at Yerushalayim, then the heart of this people shall turn back to their master,
Reḥaḇʽam sovereign of
Yehuḏah, and they shall
slay me and go back to Reḥaḇʽam sovereign of
Yehuḏah.”
1Ki 12:28 So the
sovereign took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It
is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim. See, your mighty ones, O
Yisra’ĕl, which brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim!”
1Ki 12:29 And he set
up one in Bĕyth Ěl, and the other he put in Dan.
1Ki 12:30 And this
matter became a sin, for the people went before the one as far as Dan.
1Ki 12:31 And he made
the house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were
not of the sons of Lĕwi.
The Samaritan woman told Yahusha ‘’Our fathers worshiped on
this mountain…’’ because Shekem was the place where Yahuah appeared to Abraham
and he built and altar to Yahuah who told him that ‘’To your seed I give this
land’’
Gen 12:6 And Aḇram passed through the land to the place of Sheḵem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the Kenaʽanites were in the
land.
Gen 12:7 And יהוה
appeared to Aḇram and said, “To your seed I give this land.” And he built
there an altar to יהוה, who had appeared to him.
Yaaqob also set up an altar in Shekem
Gen 33:18 And Yaʽaqoḇ came safely to the
city of Sheḵem, which is in the
land of Kenaʽan, when he came
from Paddan Aram. And he pitched his tent before the city.
Gen 33:19 And he
bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the
children of Ḥamor, Sheḵem’s father, for one
hundred qesitah.
Gen 33:20 And he set up an altar there and called it
Ěl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl.
That’s why Yahuah says in the Psalms …Psa 60:6 Elohim has spoken in His set-apartness, “I
exult, I divide Sheḵem And measure out the Valley of Sukkoth.
Because of Yeroboam who led Yasharal to sin against him
Yahuah caused all of Yasharal to be carried captive into Assyria/Ashshur.
2Ki 17:20 And יהוה rejected all the
seed of Yisra’ĕl, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of
plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence.
2Ki 17:21 For He tore Yisra’ĕl from the house of Dawiḏ, and they made
Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat sovereign. And
Yaroḇʽam drove Yisra’ĕl
from following יהוה, and made them commit a great sin.
2Ki 17:22 And the children of
Yisra’ĕl walked in all the sins of Yaroḇʽam which he did. They did not turn away from
them,
2Ki 17:23 until יהוה
removed Yisra’ĕl from His presence, as He spoke by all His servants the
prophets. So Yisra’ĕl was exiled from their land to Ashshur, as it is to this
day
The king of
Ashshur/Assyria brings pagans to dwell in Samaria and Yahuah sent among them
lions to plunder them:
2Ki17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and
from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of
Yisrael. And they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
2Ki17:25 And it came to pass, at the beginning of their
living there, they did not fear Yahuah; and Yahuah sent lions among them, and
they were destroying among them
2Ki17:26 And they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations/guym which you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria do not
know the custom of the El of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and
behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the El of the
land.
This is evidence that those who dwelt in the cities of
Samaria inter-married with Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Separ-vaim and
Yahuah sent lions among them to destroy them. The guym is in the context of
those who turned away from the face of Yahuah in following Yeroboam’s ways. The
king of Ashshur/Assyria asked them to take one of the Leuite priests to teach
them the fear of Yahuah but because the seed mingled with foreigners they were
too evil to turn back to Yahuah and heed the priest who taught them the fear of
Yahuah.
2Ki17:27 And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Take
there one of the priests whom you brought from thence and let him go and live
there; and let him teach them the custom of the El of the land.
2Ki17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how they should fear
Yahuah.
2Ki17:29 And every
nation in nation/ guy guy was making deities of its own and put them in the
houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in nation/guy guy in their cities in which they lived
there.
What translator’s missed is the word ‘guy guy’H1471 H1471
twice in a set of two in 2 Kings 17:29.
2Ki17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth (booths
for women/brothels), the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made
Ashima,
2Ki17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the
Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the
deity of Sepharvaim.
2Ki17:32 And they were fearing Yahuah and made unto
themselves among from of them priests of the high places, and were doing for
them in the houses of the high places
2Ki17:33 They were fearing Yahuah and were serving their own
deities according to the custom of the
nations/guym whom they had been
carried away from thence.
Who was the nations whom they had been carried away from
thence?
Gen 10:22 The sons of
Shĕm: Ěylam, and Asshur H804, and
Arpaḵshaḏ, and Luḏ, and Aram.
Ashshur/Assyria was the son of Shem and were of the brethren
of Yasharal who had turned their backs on Yahuah.
H804 Ashshur the
second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (that
is, Assyria), its region and its empire: - Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians.
The word guym/nations which is plural is used in 2 Kings
17:33 here in context of Ashshur as this was the first captivity of Yasharal
(….whom they had been carried away from
thence ) who had mingled with pagans and got Yasharal also to get mingled
with marrying people who had turned their backs from Yahuah. We see Asshur was
the son of Shem so the guym/nations is used in this context here.
Coming back to the Samaritans…the narration of the parable of
the good Samaritan to a learned in Turah by Yahusha shows an elect Samaritan
pouring oil and wine in the wounds of the one who fell among robbers showing
preaching of basarah to the lost. Luke 10:25-36. The Samaritan showed the work
of Yahuah in his heart of loving his neighbor as himself as stated in Turah.
Luk 10:36 “Who, then,
of these three, do you think, was neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?
Luk 10:37 And he said,
“He who showed compassion on him.” Then יהושע
said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Coming back to the
Samaritan woman at Yaaqob’s well, where was this well?
John 4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar (this is actually Shekem), near to the parcel of ground that
Yaaqob/Jacob gave to his son Yoseph/Joseph.
Near the point of his death Yoseph took an oath from Yasharal
to carry his bones back with them to the land of his fathers
Gen 50:25 And Yosĕph
made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear, saying, “Elohim shall certainly visit you,
and you shall bring up my bones from here.”
Gen 50:26 And Yosĕph
died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was
placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim.
The bones of Yoseph they buried in SHEKEM
Jos 24:31 And Yisra’ĕl
served יהוה all the days of Yahushua/Joshua, and
all the days of the elders who outlived Yahushua/Joshua, who had known all the
works of יהוה which He had done for Yisra’ĕl.
Jos 24:32 And the bones of Yosĕph, which the children
of Yisra’ĕl had brought up out of Mitsrayim, they buried at Sheḵem, in the plot of
ground which Yaʽaqoḇ had bought from the sons of Ḥamor the father of Sheḵem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which
had become an inheritance of the children of Yosĕph.
It's amazing to see that SHEKEM was given as an inheritance
to the Kohatithes (sons of Korah) and the Leuites (priests) as they were given
inheritance from Ephrayim.
Jos 21:20 And the clans of the children of Qehath, the
Lĕwites, the rest of the children of Qehath, even they had the cities of their
lot from the tribe of Ephrayim.
Jos 21:21 And they gave them SHEKEM with its open land in the
mountains of Ephrayim as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer with its
open land,
This SHEKEM was a city of refuge where if a man killed
someone by mistake could run to and seek refuge until the elders sat for
judgment to find out whether the act was done in mistake or deliberately
Jos 20:1 And יהוה spoke to Yahushua, saying,
Jos 20:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘Appoint
for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Mosheh,
Jos 20:3 for the slayer who kills any being accidentally,
unintentionally, to flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the revenger
of blood.
Jos 20:4 ‘And he shall flee to one of those cities, and stand
at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the hearing of
the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city as one of them,
and give him a place, and he shall dwell among them.
Jos 20:5 ‘And when the revenger of blood pursues him, they do
not give the slayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbour unintentionally,
and did not hate him beforehand.
Jos 20:6 ‘And he shall
dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for right-ruling,
and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then let the
slayer return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from
which he fled.’ ”
Jos 20:7 So they set
apart Qeḏesh in Galil, in the
mountains of Naphtali, and SHEKEM in the
mountains of Ephrayim, and Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron, in the mountains of Yehuḏah.
Jos 20:8 And beyond
the Yardĕn, by Yeriḥo eastward, they
appointed Betser in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Re’uḇĕn, and Ramoth in
Gilʽaḏ, from the tribe of
Gaḏ, and Golan in
Bashan, from the tribe of Menashsheh.
Jos 20:9 These were
the cities appointed for all the children of Yisra’ĕl and for the stranger who
sojourned in their midst, for anyone accidentally killing any being, to flee
there, and not die by the hand of the revenger of blood until he stood before
the congregation.
This SHEKEM was a land of sojourning
Gen 12:6 And Aḇram passed through
the land to the place of Sheḵem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the
Kenaʽanites were in the
land.
Gen 12:7 And יהוה appeared to Aḇram and said, “To
your seed I give this land.” And he built there an altar to יהוה, who had appeared
to him.
Gen 33:17 And Yaʽaqoḇ set out to Sukkoth,
and built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. That is why the
name of the place is called Sukkoth.
Gen 33:18 And Yaʽaqoḇ came safely to the city of Sheḵem, which is in the land of Kenaʽan, when he came from Paddan Aram. And he
pitched his tent before the city.
Gen 33:19 And he bought the portion of the field where
he had pitched his tent, from the children of Ḥamor, Sheḵem’s father, for one hundred qesitah.
Gen 33:20 And he set
up an altar there and called it Ěl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl.
Shekem was the son of Hamor who was a Caaninte who raped
Dinah the daughter of Yaaqob
Gen 34:4 And Sheḵem spoke to his
father Ḥamor, saying, “Take
this girl for me for a wife.”
Gen 34:5 And Yaʽaqoḇ heard that he had
defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field,
so Yaʽaqoḇ kept silent until
they came.
Gen 34:6 And Ḥamor, the father of Sheḵem, went out to Yaʽaqoḇ to speak with him.
Gen 34:7 And the sons
of Yaʽaqoḇ came in from the
field when they heard it. And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he
had done a senseless deed in Yisra’ĕl by lying with Yaʽaqoḇ’s daughter, which
should not be done.
Gen 34:8 But Ḥamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being longs for
your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
Gen 34:9 “And
intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for
yourselves,
Gen 34:10 and dwell
with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have
possessions in it.”
SHEKEM was the place where Yaaqob put away all idols which
his clan had of other gads and hid them under the terebinth tree
Gen 35:1 And Elohim
said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Arise, go up to
Bĕyth Ěl and dwell there. And make an altar there to Ěl who appeared to you
when you fled from the face of Ěsaw your brother.”
Gen 35:2 And Yaʽaqoḇ said to his
household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign mighty ones that
are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments.
Gen 35:3 “And let us
arise and go up to Bĕyth Ěl, and let me make there an altar to Ěl, who answered
me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way which I have
gone.”
Gen 35:4 So they gave
Yaʽaqoḇ all the foreign
mighty ones which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in
their ears. And Yaʽaqoḇ hid them under the
terebinth tree which was near SHEKEM
It's interesting to see that Yaaqob's sons demand that every
male in the house of Hamor should be circumcised and when they were in the pain
of circumcision Shimon and Leui slew all of them. This SHEKEM was named after
the son of Hamor whose name was SHEKEM and here were the idols of pagan gads
buried, here were the bones of Yoseph buried, here was the land given to
Qehath/Kohath and Leuites as an inheritance among the Ephrathites.
Psa 108:8 “Gilʽaḏ is Mine, Menashsheh
is Mine, And Ephrayim is My chief
defence, Yehuḏah is My lawgiver.
Notice it says EPHRAYIM is my CHIEF DEFENCE… a city of
refuge..i.e. Shekem
Pointing to Yoseph as he was promised one portion more than
his brothers and he was told that from here would the the Stone of Yasharal
i.e. Yahusha ha Mashiyach. The rock of offence, the one who would be the cause
of rise and fall of many in Yasharal.
It was here that Yahusha met the Samaritan woman who asked
him for living waters
Joh 4:5 So He came to
a city of Shomeron, called Sheḵem, near the piece of land Yaʽaqoḇ gave to his son Yosĕph.
Joh 4:6 And Yaʽaqoḇ’s fountain was
there. So יהושע, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the
fountain. It was about the sixth hour
The KJV says Sychar which is actually SHEKEM
Located between Mt. Gerizim (left) and Mt. Ebal (right)
Shechem is preeminent in the Biblical record, beginning with Alahym's promise
of the land to Abraham. See picture below. Later Jacob would return here with his family and
settle shortly. The twelve tribes gathered on these two hills to recite
Alahym's Law and the blessings and curses that accompanied obedience and
disobedience.
Jos 24:1 And
Yahushua/Joshua gathered all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl to Sheḵem and called for
the elders of Yisra’ĕl, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for
their officers. And they presented themselves before Elohim.
Jos 24:19 Then
Yahushua said to the people, “You are not able to serve יהוה, for He is a
set-apart Elohim, a jealous Ěl is He. He does not bear with your transgression
and with your sins,
Jos 24:20 If you forsake יהוה and shall serve
mighty ones of a stranger. Then He shall turn back and do you evil and consume
you, after He has been good to you.”
Jos 24:21 And the people said to Yahushua, “No, but we do
serve יהוה!”
Jos 24:22 Then
Yahushua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you
have chosen יהוה for yourselves, to serve Him.” And they said, “Witnesses!”
Jos 24:23 “And now, put away the mighty ones of the stranger
which are in your midst, and incline your heart to יהוה Elohim of
Yisra’ĕl.”
Jos 24:24 And the
people said to Yahushua, “יהוה our Elohim we serve, and His voice we obey.”
Jos 24:25 And Yahushua made a covenant with the people
that day, and laid on them a law and a right-ruling in Sheḵem.
And Yahushua/Joshua made a covenant with the people that day
who assembled on these two mountains and laid on them a law and right-ruling in
SHEKEM. The blessings to those who would serve Yahuah with obedience and the
curses to them who would forsake him and serve other gads.
So we see that the guym/nations speaking of were of the
nation of Yasharal who mingled with the heathens in turning their backs to
Yahuah and Yahusha came to bring back from them the lost sheep of house of
Yasharal.
Speaking at Cronelius house Kepha/Peter said “He sent the word to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, bringing the Good News: peace through יהושע
Messiah! He is Master of all.’’
Act 10:34 And opening
his mouth, Kĕpha said, “Truly I see that Elohim shows no partiality,
Act 10:35 but in every
nation, he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
Act 10:36 “He sent the word to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, bringing the Good News: peace through יהושע
Messiah! He is Master of all.
So these were not heathen Gentiles but the lost sheep of the
house of Yasharal. For even Cornelius was not a heathen and this we can
understand that Yahudi’s have no association with the heathen but here he is
testified as a righteous and Alahym fearing man well spoken of by the entire
nation of the Yahudi’s.
Acts 10:22 They said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and
Elohim-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Yahudi’s, was
divinely directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear
a message from you.
While the Great commission is to go out to the world to make
disciples of all the nations/guym, a comparison with Matt 10:23 says ‘’you
shall no means have gone through the cities of Yasharal before the Son of Man
comes’’
Matt 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations/guym, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,”
Matt 28:20 “teaching them to observe all that I commanded
you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Mat 10:23 “And when
they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly, I say to you, you shall by no means have gone through the
cities of Yisra’ĕl before the Son of Aḏam comes.
So the disciples of the guym/nations are the lost sheep of
the house of Yasharal scattered to the ends of the world.
The letters of Kepha and Yaaqob show the twelve tribes were
scattered in the world
1Pe 1:1 Kĕpha, an emissary of יהושע
Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos,
Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,
1Pe 1:2 chosen
according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit
unto obedience1 and sprinkling of the blood of יהושע
Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to you.
Jas 1:1 Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of
Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings.
Shaul/Paul’s apostleship was not to the heathen nation but to
the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal
Gal 2:9 and when Yaaqob (James) and Cephas and Yahuchanan
(John), who were reputed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given
to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the nations/guym and
they to the circumcised.
Romans was a letter to the Yahudi’s exposing the Turah and it
would be absurd to believe Shaul/Paul wrote it to the heathen nations, it was
written to the Yahudi’s in dispersion.
Rom 11:13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles/Guym.
Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles/Guym, I magnify my ministry
Rom 11:14 if by any means I may provoke to emulation alaph
tau my sons/banay my people/amay, and might save some of them.
Moreover speaking of the engrafting and salvation Shaul/Paul
the emissary says the Deliverer shall come out of Tsiyon and TURN AWAY
WICKEDNESS FROM YAAQOB, he doesn’t say ‘’Deliverer shall come out of Tsiyon and
turn away wickedness from Yaaqob and heathen nations’’
Rom 11:26 And so all
Yisra’ĕl shall be saved, as it has been written, “The Deliverer shall come out
of Tsiyon, and He shall turn away
wickedness from Yaʽaqoḇ,
Shaul/Paul perfectly understood the covenant Yahuah made was
with the house of Yasharal and Yahudah and the Brit Chadashah/Renewed Covenant
was with the same houses
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, He says, “See, the days
are coming,” says יהוה, “when
I shall conclude with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah a renewed covenant,
Heb 8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded
them,” says יהוה.
Heb 8:10 “Because this
is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days,
says יהוה, giving My laws in
their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their
Elohim, and they shall be My people.
Heb 8:11 “And they shall by no means teach each one his
neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know יהוה,’
because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
The covenant was not with the heathen gentiles/guym but with
the house of Yasharal and renewed with the same house.
The engrafting into
the olive tree:
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should
fall? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the
Gentiles/Guym, to make them jealous.
Rom 11:12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world
and their failure is riches for the Gentiles/Guym, how much more shall their
fulfillment be!
Salvation is come to the Guym/part of the nation of Yasharal
who are wild in nature because they mingled themselves with pagan people in
intermarrying and worshiping other deities.
Rom 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were
grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the
olive tree
This is further confirmed by Shaul/Paul who says that ‘’’you
being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of
the rich root of the olive tree’’
The guym/nation Paul is speaking about is not a heathen/pagan
nation but lost sheep of the house of Yasharal who became wild in mingling with
pagan people.
We also see a beautiful picture of the tree of life in the
midst of Paradise on either side of the river of waters flowing from the one
who sits on the throne; its leaves were for the healing of the nations/guym.
The healing is of this wildness they acquired by mingling with the heathen
nations…a mix breed people.
Rev 22:1 And he showed
me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of Elohim
and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:2 In the middle
of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which
bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the
healing of the nations/guym.
In my study on “Yasharal of Aluahym’’ –video series I showed
evidence from scriptures in Acts of the apostles that the emissaries/apostles
went to reason with the Yahudi’s and Guym/Gentiles in the
kenneseth’s/synagogues and not anywhere else.
Act 13:14 But passing
through from Perge, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.
Act 13:15 And after the reading of the Torah and the
Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue
sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have any word of
encouragement for the people, speak.”
Acts14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium they entered into the
synagogue of the Yahudi together, and so spoke, that a great multitude
believed, both of Jews and of Greeks/Yunayam
Here the Guym are called Yunayam because they were Greek
speaking Yahudi’s.
Acts17:1 Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and
Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where
there was a synagogue of the Yahudi’s/Jews.
Acts17:2 And
according to Shaul’s custom, he went to them,
and for three Shabbats reasoned with them from the Scriptures
Acts17:3 explaining and giving evidence that the Mashiyach
must needs have suffered and rise again from the dead, and saying, This Yahusha
whom I am proclaiming to you is the Mashiyach.
Acts17:4 And some of them were persuaded and consorted with
Shaul and Silas, And of the
Elohim-fearing Greeks/Yunayam a great multitude and of the chief women not a
few
It was the custom of Shaul/Paul to go to the
kenneseth/synagogue of the Yahudi’s/Jews to reason with them from scriptures.
Paul did not go to the heathen as Christianity would like you to believe.
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Shabbat and
persuaded Yahudi’s/Jews and Yunayam/Greeks.
Who were gathered on
Shavuot/Pentecost in Yerushalam?
Act 2:1 And when the Day of the Festival of Weeks had come,
they were all with one mind in one place.
Act 2:6 And when this
sound came to be, the crowd came together, and were confused, because everyone
heard them speak in his own language.
Act 2:7 And they were
all amazed and marvelled, saying to each other, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?
The crowd who came together to worship were the Guym/Gentiles
who were Yahudi’s in dispersion to the ends of the world. They came in
obedience as the Turah stated that three times a year every male has to come to
Yerushalam to worship but not without a sacrifice. Shavuot was one of the
feasts of the three where it was required for every male Yahudi to come upto
Yerushalam.
Deu 16:16 “Three times
a year all your males appear before יהוה
your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,
and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths. And none should appear before יהוה
empty-handed,
Deu 16:17 but each one with the gift of his hand, according
to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you.
So here were the Yahudim, dedicated men from every guy/nation
under heaven who heard the disciples from Galilee (we read Galilee of the
guym/gentiles) speaking the works of Alahym in his own language. i.e. the
language of the nation he was settled in.
Act 2:5 Now in Yerushalayim there were dwelling Yehuḏim, dedicated men
from every nation/guy under the heaven.
Greek word for ‘guy’
is ‘ethnos’ which one of the meaning is ‘ a race (as of the same habit),
that is, a trib’
Act 2:8 “And how do we
hear, each one in our own language in which we were born?
Act 2:9 “Parthians and
Medes and Ěylamites, and those dwelling in Aram Naharayim, both Yehuḏah and Kappadokia,
Pontos and Asia,
Act 2:10 both Phrygia
and Pamphulia, Mitsrayim and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from
Rome, both Yehuḏim and converts,
Act 2:11 “Cretans and
Araḇs, we hear them
speaking in our own tongues the great deeds of Elohim.”
Act 2:12 And they were
all amazed, and were puzzled, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”
So these were not pagan gentiles as the English definition would want
you to believe because the word gentile comes from the Latin Vulgate
translation of Rome which means ‘’not of Rome’’
Now let’s review Rev 11: 1-2 in the light of what we have studied.
Rev 11:1 And there was given me a reed like a rod; and the angel stood,
saying, Get up and measure the temple of Elohim and the altar, and those who
worship in it
Rev 11:2 Leave out the court which
is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the
nations/guym; and they shall tread underfoot the holy city for forty-two months
The measurement of the spiritual temple is in Yahusha ha Mashiyach as
he is the haykal/temple whose body we are if we believe in him being engrafted
to the olive tree with our wildness being healed. In the physical temple in
Yerushalam no pagan was allowed to worship. There is proof from scriptures.
Act 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended,
the Yehuḏim from Asia, seeing him in the
Set-apart Place, were stirring up all the crowd, and they laid hands on him,
Act 21:28 crying out, “Men of Yisra’ĕl, help! This is
the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah,
and this place. And besides, he also
brought Greeks into the Set-apart Place and has profaned this Set-apart Place.”
Act 21:29 Because they had
previously seen Trophimos the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they thought
that Sha’ul had brought into the Set-apart Place.
The Yahudi’s thought Shaul/Paul had brought the Greeks/Yunayam into the
Set apart place and profaned the Set apart place as they previously had seen
Trophimos the Ephesian with him in the city whom they assumed Paul brought into
the Set apart place. Trophimos was a Yunanay speaking Yahudi and uncircumcised
which is why the Yahudi’s were put off concerning Paul and moreover they
thought Trophimos to be from the heathen nation.
Act 20:1 After the uproar had
ceased, Sha’ul called the taught ones to him, and having embraced them, went
away to go to Makedonia.
Act 20:2 And having gone through
those parts, and having encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece,
Act 20:3 where he spent three
months. When he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return through
Makedonia, as a plot was made against him by the Yehuḏim.
Act 20:4 And he was accompanied by
Sopater of Beroia, and Aristarchos and Sekundos of the Thessalonians, and Gaios
of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tuchikos and
Trophimos of Asia.
Act 20:5 And these, going ahead,
waited for us at Troas.
Act 20:6 And we sailed away from
Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five
days, where we stayed seven days.
When Paul was brought before Felix
the governor and accused by Tertullus for profaning the Set apart place as
follows…..
Act 24:5 “For having found this man a plague, who
stirs up dissension among all the Yehuḏim throughout
the world, and a ringleader of the sect
of the Natsarenes,
Act 24:6 who also tried to profane the Set-apart Place, and whom we seized, and wished
to judge him according to our law,
Act 24:7 but the commander Lysias
came along and with much violence took him out of our hands,
This is what Paul spoke in his
defence…
Act 24:10 And when the governor
had motioned him to speak, Sha’ul answered, “Knowing that for many years you
have been a judge of this nation, I gladly defend myself,
Act 24:11 seeing you are able to
know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Yerushalayim to
worship.
Act 24:12 “And
they neither found me in the Set-apart Place disputing with anyone nor stirring
up the crowd, either in the congregations or in the city.
Act 24:13 “Nor are they able to
prove the charges of which they now accuse me.
Act 24:14 “And
this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I
worship the Elohim of my fathers, believing all that has been written in the
Torah and in the Prophets,
Act 24:15 having an expectation in
Elohim, which they themselves also wait for, that there is to be a resurrection
of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
Act 24:16 “And in this I exercise
myself to have a clear conscience toward Elohim and men always.
Act 24:17 “And after many years I
came to bring kind deeds to my nation and offerings,
Act 24:18 at which time certain Yehuḏim from Asia found me cleansed in the Set-apart Place, neither with a
crowd nor with disturbance,
Act 24:19 who ought to be present before you to bring charges if they
have any matter against me.
Paul believed in the Torah and the
Prophets and he would never bring any heathen or pagan into the Set apart place
and though Trophimus was not a pagan/heathen, he yet didn’t bring him into the
temple along with him because he knew the Yahudi’s at Yerushalam were seeking
an occasion to put him in trouble.
Coming back to Rev 11:1-2 the ones
measured into the Dwelling Place of Elohim, and the altar, are those
worshipping in it which include the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal called
the ‘guym’ who were now engrafted into the olive tree while those trampling the
outer court are the guym/nations professing Yahuah but still mingling with the
unclean practices of the heathen nations. If you see the ‘outer court’ is
within the temple and no ‘heathen/pagan’ was allowed entry into the
haykal/temple of the Yahudi’s so the guym/nations trampling the outer court
here have to be those professing they are of Yasharal but mingled with pagan
practices and an outward show of humility in observing Turah in the letter not
in the Ruach.
It says they trampled the outer
court for 42 months. The number 42 is very significant in understanding the
trampling.
Mat 1:17 So all the generations
from Aḇraham to Dawiḏ were fourteen generations/darut, and from Dawiḏ until the exile to Baḇel were fourteen generations/darut, and from the exile to Baḇel until the Messiah were fourteen generations/darut.
The genealogy of Matthew records
14 generations from Abraham to Daud, 14 generations from Daud to Babel exile
and 14 generations from Babel exile to Mashiyach. If you add them 14+14+14 we
arrive at 42 and we must remember that in each of these 14 generations were the
elect Yasharal and the guym Yasharal.
It’s amazing to see that each 14
generations is a (7+7) + (7+7) + (7+7) which totals unto 6 times 7 and if we
see Yahuah’s muaedim/feasts have got 7 high Shabbats and this is the picture of
6 of the 7 high shabbaths being trampled by the guym in the outer court.
The word for generations is
dar/dur which also means circle
So it’s a picture of the 14+14+14
generations of the guym trampling the 6 x 7 high Shabbats of the mueadim/feasts
of Yahuah from Abraham unto Mashiyach. The New/Renewed Testament week of 1 x7
brings the completion to 49 (42 +7 =49) and the 50th generation/dur
is the jubilee where Yahusha comes to set apart his people by separating them
from the tares.
These weeks of years can be
understood how the twelve tribes came forth from Yaaqob from Leah and her maid
Zilpah and Rachel and her maid Bilhah. Yaaqob served 7 years for Rachel and was
deceived by Laban as he gave him Leah instead of Rachel and Yaaqob had to serve
another 7 years for Rachel (7+7)
Gen 29:27 Complete the week/shabua of this one/Rachel, and we shall give you
this other one also for the service which you shall serve with me, yet another
seven years.
Each seven years was termed as ‘Complete
the week’
Leah’s sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
Yahudah, Issachar, Zebulun. One daughter ‘Dinah’
Zilpah’s sons: Gad, Asher,
Rachel’s sons: Yoseph, Benyamyan
Bilhah’s sons: Dan, Naphtali,
So we see the 12 tribes populated
from Leah & her maid Zilpah and Rachel and her maid Bilhah. The word for
handmaid used here is ‘shapchah’ שפחה which is a root word in ‘mashpachah’ משפחה which means
family.
Remember we derived that the word
‘guym’ from scriptural evidence which refers to ‘tribes’ forming the nations.
Just as Yahuah told Abraham that he would make him father of many nations/guym.
These heads/sons of Yaaqob kept
populating the nations/guym which Matt 1:17 shows the genealogy/dur of 14 +14 +
14 generations unto Mashiyach, and the other 7 through Daniel’s final week to make 49 and 50th
generation would be the end of the captivity when all guym/nations or tribes
chosen for salvation would be gathered together in Mashiyach, they would be
complete in him being healed of all their wildness.
70 weeks are determined from the
time the command to build Yerushalam until the consummation. The command to
build Yerushalam was given by Cyrus king of Persia and Daniel records 7 + 62 =
69 x 7 =483 weeks of years unto Mashiyach.
Dan 9:25 “Know, then, and understand: from the going
forth of the command to restore and build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince
is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.
It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction.
Dan 9:27 “And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle
of the week he shall put an end to slaughtering and meal offering. And on the
wing of abominations he shall lay waste, even until the complete end and that
which is decreed is poured out on the one who lays waste
69 x 7 + 1 week (1 x 7) = 490
years
While many see the judgment of
Yasharal of Babylonian captivity for these 490 years which includes the
dispersion when Rome destroyed Yerushalam and the Nastarim were scattered among
other nations, many fail to see the forgiveness of Yahuah towards his people in
this captivity of 490 years.
Matt18:21 Then Kepha came and said
to Him, My Master, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him?
Up to seven times?
Matt18:22 Yahushua said to him, “I
do not say to you, up to seven times,
but up to seventy times seven.”
70 x 7 = 490 ….the exact same
measure of forgiveness we are to give our brethren in the measure Yahuah gives
the guym for their mingling with paganism.
Daniel understood from scriptures
that the desolation of Yasharal as prophesied by YermeYahu was for 70 years
Dan 9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕl,
observed from the Scriptures the number of the years, according to the word of יהוה
given to Yirmeyah the prophet, for the
completion of the wastes of Yerushalayim would be seventy years.
Jer 25:7 “But you did not listen to Me,” declares יהוה,
“so as to provoke Me with the works of your hands, for your own evil.
Jer 25:8 “Therefore thus said יהוה
of hosts, ‘Because you did not obey My words,
Jer 25:9 see, I am sending and taking all the tribes
of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My
servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants,
and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and
make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
Jer 25:10 ‘And I shall banish from them the voice of
rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Jer 25:11 ‘And all this land
shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations/guym shall
serve the sovereign of Baḇel seventy years.
Jer 25:12 ‘And it shall be, when seventy years are
completed, that I shall punish the
sovereign of Baḇel and that nation/guy, the land of the Chaldeans, for their crookedness,’ declares יהוה,
‘and shall make it everlasting ruins.
Speaking of the 10 tribes as
‘guym’ in YermeYahu 25:11 Yahuah says these guym will serve the king of Babel
for 70 years and when these 70 years are completed Yahuah will punish the king
of Babylon and that guy/referring to the kingdom of Babel which sat within
Yasharal. For details you may look up my videos on ‘Mystery Babylon the mother
of all harlots’’.
In answer to Daniel’s prayer
Yahuah through his angel revealed to Daniel that these 70 weeks stood
prophetically as 70 x 7 = 490 and the end of the 490 would result in the jubilee
i.e. the end of the captivity of his people and a full recompense for their
iniquity and the punishment of Babel guym/nation which sat within his nation
Yasharal in causing them to sin against Yahuah by eating things sacrificed to
idols which is fornication.
While the 70 years were literally
fulfilled in Yasharal’s captivity these years stood prophetically as weeks of
years just as we saw Yaaqob serving Laban A WEEK (for 7 years) for Leah and A
WEEK ( for 7 years) for Rachel.
The Sabbath Year
First of all, it is necessary to
discuss the concept of the “Sabbath year”. Many people are familiar with the
Sabbath day –
that is, the commandment that the 7th day of the week is a day of rest.
It turns out that there is also a commandment that
every 7th year is a “year of rest”. In this case, the land,
itself, will be given “rest” – in that no crops may be planted or harvested during a Sabbath
year. Here is the relevant passage, which states that the land must rest on the
Sabbath year:
Lev
25:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,
Lev
25:2 “Speak to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to יהוה.
Lev 25:3 ‘Six years you sow your field, and
six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit,
Lev 25:4 but in the seventh year the land is to have a
Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to יהוה. Do not
sow your field and do not prune your vineyard.
Lev
25:5 ‘Do not reap what grows of its own
of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is
a year of rest for the land.
Lev
25:6 ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall
be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and
your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,
Lev
25:7 and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its
crops are for food.
Lev 25:8 ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths
of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven
Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
Lev
25:9 ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of
the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through
all your land.
Lev 25:10 ‘And you shall set the fiftieth
year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its
inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his
possession, and each of you return to his clan.
Lev 25:11 ‘The
fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own,
nor gather from its unpruned vine.
Lev 25:12 ‘It is
a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops.
Lev 25:13 ‘In the
Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his possession.
Another special year in Scripture is called the
“Year of Jubilee”. Scripture states that every 50th year
is a Year of Jubilee. There are several important events that take place in a
Jubilee year – and one such event is that the land must rest on
Jubilee years – just as it does on Sabbath years.
In many places, Scripture states that if Yasharal failed to keep Alahym’s
commandments, then Alahym will allow
Yasharal to be conquered by their enemies – and that
Yasharal will then be held captive in their enemies’ countries.
One of the reasons why this is important is that Scripture
explicitly states that while Yasharal is in captivity, the land of
Yasharal will be able to have its Sabbath rest:
Lev
26:27 ‘And if in spite of this, you do
not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
Lev
26:28 then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
Lev
26:29 ‘And you shall eat the flesh of
your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
Lev
26:30 ‘And I shall destroy your high
places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses
of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
Lev
26:31 ‘And I shall turn your cities into
ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
Lev
26:32 ‘And I shall lay the land waste,
and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
Lev 26:33 ‘And I shall scatter you among the nations/guym
and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities
ruins,
Lev 26:34 and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it
lies waste and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land would
rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Lev 26:35 ‘As long as it lies waste it
rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
Yahuah in the Turah warned Yasharal that if
they did not obey him and walked contrary to his commands he would punish them
7 times , this is the idea where Kepha got from asking Yahusha whether he needs
to forgive his brother 7 times 7 just as it is mentioned in the Turah as per
the recompense Yahuah would give of 7 x 7 = 49 for the land to be in
desolation. But Yahusha tells him not 7 x 7 but 70 x 7 = 490 which is the
entire period of the affliction of Yasharal in dispersion when Yahuah refines
them by giving them upto captivity and forgives them in bringing them back to
himself.
2Ch 36:19 And they burned the House of Elohim, and broke down
the wall of Yerushalayim, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed
all its valuable utensils.
2Ch 36:20 And those who escaped from the sword he exiled to
Baḇel, where they became servants to him and his sons until the reign of the
reign of Persia,
2Ch 36:21 in order to
fill the word of יהוה by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the
land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay waste she kept Sabbath, until
seventy years were completed.
The land enjoyed her Sabbath (70 x 7 = 490)
when Yasharal was in captivity.
Why did
Yahuah command Yasharal into a 70 year captivity, not more and not less?
We find the clue in Ezekiel 4
Eze 4:1 “And you, son of man, take a clay
tablet, and you shall lay it before you, and shall inscribe on it a city,
Yerushalayim,
Eze 4:2
and shall lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and
heap up a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams
against it all around.
Eze 4:3 “Then take an iron plate, and set it as
an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it,
and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. It is a sign to
the house of Yisra’ĕl.
Eze 4:4 “And lie on your left side, and you
shall put the crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl on it. As many days as you
lie on it, you shall bear their crookedness.
Eze 4:5 “For
I Myself have laid on you the years of their crookedness, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the
crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl.
Eze 4:6 “And
when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side and shall
bear the crookedness of the house of Yehuḏah forty days, a day for a year. I
have laid on you a day for a year.
Ezekiel was told to lie on his left side for
390 days to bear the iniquity of
Yasharal for the symbolic 390 years as verse 6 says ‘’….I have laid on
you a day for a year’’ and for Yahudah to lie on the right side for 40 days
which each day is for a year. So 390 + 40 =430 years which is well short of 490
days for years?
In order for 70 Sabbath years
to be missed, Yasharal must have lived in Yasharal– without observing
the Sabbath year – for a total of 490 years.
This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year – and
490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years.
The 7th year Sabbath was of great significance
because in that year Yasharal was not to sow or reap anything in the land as it
was a year of rest for the land where what grows of it’s own is to be used by
himself, his hired servants and for the strangers of the land who sojourn the
land for free of cost.
Lev
25:3 ‘Six years you sow your field, and
six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit,
Lev
25:4 but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a
Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and
do not prune your vineyard.
Lev
25:5 ‘Do not reap what grows of its own
of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is
a year of rest for the land.
Lev
25:6 ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall
be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and
your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,
Lev
25:7 and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its
crops are for food.
Similarly
the 7 Sabbaths of years (7 times 7 years) were also significant as everything
had to be waived off for those in debt, those who sold their houses, servants
should go free etc. They were to sound the ram’s horn on the 10th
day of the 7th month on the day of Atonement to proclaim a release
where each one returns to his possession.
Lev
25:8 ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths
of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven
Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
Lev
25:9 ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of
the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through
all your land.
Lev
25:10 ‘And you shall set the fiftieth
year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its
inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his
possession, and each of you return to his clan.
Lev
25:11 ‘The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to
you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned
vine.
Lev
25:12 ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart
to you. Eat from the field its crops.
Lev
25:13 ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let
each one of you return to his possession.
Ezekiel
4:1-6 prophecy shows the northern kingdom of Yasharal had failed to
keep Alahym’s commandments (including the Sabbath year and the jubilees during
the 390 years) for 390 years;
The
southern kingdom of Yahudah had failed to keep Alahym’s commandments
for 40 years (including the Sabbath year only because 40 years doesn’t attain a
jubilee). Hence put together 390 + 40 = 430 years
As
mentioned above, the land must rest on Jubilee years as well – and as
a result, Jubilee years are also “Sabbath”
years. Jubilee years fall within the seven year “Sabbath cycle”.
Basically, each Jubilee year is also the first year of a new Sabbath
cycle. So, during the course of 49 years, there will be
8 years in which the land must rest – the first year, which is a
Jubilee year; and every seven years, which are Sabbath years
Northern tribes:
The
following years will be years of rest, during each 49 year “group”: 1, 7,
14, 21, 28, 35, 42, and 49 (Total 8)
and in the
390 years the following would be the jubilee years
1, 50,
100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350 (Total 8)
Hence 8 x
8 = 64 years of Sabbath years and jubilees missed by the northern tribes
Southern tribes (Yahudah and Benyamyan):
The following years of Sabbath rest 1, 7, 14,
21, 28, and 35 (Total 6 Sabbath years missed)
Hence 64
+6 = 70 years of captivity.
When we
say that they missed we understand that they fully did not obey Yahuah’s
commands as stated in Turah to not sow and reap in the 7th year and
to release captives and restore in the 50th year as among them were
the guym/nations or tribes who had turned their backs to Yahuah and were
outwardly showing they were obeying the commands but their hearts were far away
from loving Yahuah and his commands.
Coming back to Daniel’s 70 years of prophecy,
the final 7 which is the Renewed Testament week ushers us into the jubilee with
the end of the captivity post the 490 years. Hence we see the 14+ 14 + 14 as
per Matt 1:17 (unto Mashiyach) + 7 (NT week) = 49 and the 70 x 7 = 490 weeks of
years as per Daniel’s prophecy showing us the jubilee is near. Where man failed
to forgive 70 times 7, Yahusha our Savior fulfills when he forgives and chooses
Yasharal once again.
Isa 14:1 Because יהוה has compassion on Yaaqoḇ, and shall
again choose Yasharal, and give them rest in their own land. And the strangers
shall join them, and they shall cling to the house of Yaaqob.
The 490 years of missing the Sabbath years and Jubilees of disobedience:
In the 49 years group during each 49 year “group”: 1, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, and 49 (Total 8 Sabbath years missed)
Jubilee years in 490 years : 1,50,100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450 = 10
Sabbath years and jubilee years missed in the 490 years : 8 x 10 = 80
Psa 90:7 For we have been consumed by Your displeasure, And by Your wrath we are alarmed.
Psa 90:8 You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret sin in the light of Your face.
Psa 90:9 For all our days have passed away in Your wrath, We spend our years like a whisper.
Psa 90:10 The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psa 90:11 Who knows the power of Your displeasure? And your wrath, according to the fear of You?
Psa 90:12 Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.
Psa 90:13 Return, O יהוה! How long? And be sorry for Your servants.
We see both the 490/7 = 70 and the 80 (8 x 10) in the above scripture where the Psalmist asks Yahuah to teach him to number his days to let us bring the heart to wisdom. Indeed this is the wisdom of Yahuah in letting us know how we fall short and it’s only Mashiyach who makes us complete in him in forgiving us 70 x 7 but not without taking us through the captivity. My prayer is Yahuah heal our wildness by the leaves of the tree of life in getting us nourished by the roots of the Olive tree. Yahusha is the root from where we draw our suck to be healed.
