Will Eliyahu (Elijah) precede the restoration of 10-Israel?

Before the primary question is considered, lets ponder another related one: Did Eliyahu precede and bring about Judah’s return to the Land of Israel?

No, יהוה used the governments of men to restore Judah from Persia in antiquity and in recent history. I see no reason to put extra-requirements on יהוה in order to restore Ephraim (10-Israel). We know from Scripture that Eliyahu will precede the Terrible Day of יהוה and Messiah (see When will Eliyahu come?), but where does it say Eliyahu will precede the regathering of at least a part of Ephraim?

Why should Ephraim receive a special prophet to evacuate them from suffering while Judah received no such prophet? Is Ephraim more special than Judah? No, Ephraim is not. Judah should have known and Ephraim should know that suffering and punishment is coming because of what Jeremiah 30:11 foretold. We can tickle our ears the same way Judah tickled her ears pre-1940s (thinking everything is going to be okay), but did the secular and religious false-prophets help save any of the Jews?

People question: I just don’t see how the poor are going to return to Zion. How are we going to make it financially? But the thing Ephraim must realize is that many of the rich of Judah were made poor because of the German Nazis. And the surviving poor of Judah found a way to return, by foot, by boat, and by plane. The wise remnant of Ephraim will do the same as the wise of Judah. The surviving remnant will likely do the same as well. I’m completely for Eliyahu supernaturally providing for Ephraim and Judah’s return. I would be content if יהוה just translated us all to Zion in the same fashion He did with Philip in Acts 8. And who knows, maybe He will do that in order to gather all “the woman” to Zion from the four corners of the Earth at a later period, but all I personally know now is that יהוה told His people to exit Babylon so we don’t experience her judgments. The instruction to do so is starting to sound more than a little compelling. I understand Mystery Babylon (America) didn’t come about until 1600 years after Revelation was given, but now we can identify Mystery Babylon the Daughter and we can discern the lateness of the age. Therefore, is it not prudent for us to leave Mystery Babylon before the proverbial and/or literal Persians destroy Babylon again?

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The “Two-House Teaching” defuses Christian-based Anti-Semitism

When I hear Christian and One-House Messianic “scholars” proclaim and rebuke Two House Theology as being “Replacement Theology” and Anti-Jewish or Anti-Semitic, I’m a bit baffled and perplexed. All of those I’ve seen who understand and embrace the Two-House Teaching actually develop a deeper sense of affection for the Jewish people (Israelite descendants of the Kingdom of Judah), however there persists differing degrees of dislike for the Rabbinic system of the Jewish people. Even so, a love for Yehudah (Jew-dah) continues and a desire to do “the Jews” harm is unthinkable. Indeed, a sense of brotherhood develops, even though the feeling isn’t always mutual.

Even where Christianity doesn’t express clear Replacement-type doctrines, there is an underlying Replacement-type paradigm that pervades much of the Catholic and Protesting-Catholic spheres of doctrinal reasoning. If you were born and raised up within Christianity as I was, you’ve surely heard distinguishing comments like “physical Israel” and “spiritual Israel”, where the “Church” is spiritual Israel and inheritor of Israel’s promises. Or you’ll hear even more ridiculous doctrines like: “God the Father was married to Israel, while Jesus is married to the Church”. These and similar Replacement-type theologies are defused when Christians come to understand the Two-House Teaching and begin seeing the presence of Judah and 10-Israel even when they read their New Testaments. This ancient and prophetic “reality” is truly everywhere within the Tanakh and the Christian scriptures, but it is a reality which has been hidden from Judah and 10-Israel for many centuries (in other words: “blindness until the fullness of the Nations/Gentiles have come in” - Romans 11:25).

The fact that the Two-House Teaching defuses Anti-semitism isn’t a primary basis for importance, but simply a peripheral ramification which is good and good to point out, especially in a world where Anti-semitism is on the rise yet again.

I highly recommend all Christians and Jews to read the following (including the Related Content if time permits): The Hidden Irony in Christian Replacement Theology.

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When will Elijah (Eliyahu) come? Malachi 4

Malachi 4:1-6:
1 “For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.
2 “But to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall.
3 “And you shall trample the wrongdoers, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,” said יהוה of hosts.
4 “Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Yisrael – laws and right-rulings.
5 “See, I am sending you Eliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה
6 “And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.”

Many believe, and rightly believe, that Eliyahu (Elijah) already came in the form of John the Immerser (the Baptist). But just as Yehoshua (Jesus) is coming a second time, so Eliyahu is coming yet a second time as a preceding witness in order to prepare the way for Him (Yehoshua). Eliyahu has not yet “restored all matters” as the Prophet Malachi (Chapters 3-4) indicates he would (just as Yehoshua confirms below). Read the following passage, but be careful not to gloss over verse 11.

Matthew 17:10-14:
10 And His taught ones asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Eliyahu has to come first?”
11 And Yehoshua answering, said to them, “Eliyahu is indeed coming first, and shall restore all matters.
12 “But I say to you that Eliyahu has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they wished. In this way the Son of Adam is also about to suffer by them.”
13 Then the taught ones understood that He had spoken to them about Yohanan the Immerser.

Yehoshua did not deny the future event, but indicated Eliyahu was already in their midst and prepared the way for His coming. Also note with the following passage that the Disciples of Yehoshua believed Eliyahu of Malachi 4:5 had yet come to “restore all matters”. It was yet a future event, which is quite apparent even now (that is: it is still a future event).

Acts 3:19-23:
19 “Repent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,
20 and that He sends Yehoshua Messiah, pre-appointed for you,
21 whom heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all matters, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old.
22 “For Mosheh truly said to the fathers, יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.
23 ‘And it shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ [ref. Deut. 18:18-20]

History and prophecy are frequently repeated or reoccur in dual events. In fact, sometimes History is Prophecy (for example: the First Exodus is a historical event that prophesied the Greater Exodus of Jeremiah 16 and 23).

The Great and Terrible Day

Now we just need to figure out when the Great and Terrible Day of יהוה is (otherwise known as the Great Tribulation). There are many things that point to its arrival in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week, a 7 year Shmittah cycle, and lasting for 3 1/2 years or 42 months (Daniel 7:25,12:1; Matthew 24:21; Revelation 11:2-3,12:14,13:5). Malachi does not specify exactly how long “before” the Terrible Day of יהוה that Eliyahu will come. We simply know it is any time between “now” and the start of the Great Tribulation. There is good reason to believe he will be one of the Two Witnesses of Revelation who gather the First Fruits (the 144,000) to Jerusalem to be sealed, those representing a remnant from Judah and 10-Israel, just before the Terrible Day. Unless the regathering of the 144,000 (Rev 7) and “the woman” (Rev 12) is supernatural, it will take some amount of time to raise a sign in Tzion for them to see and be drawn to. Even so, Eliyahu will certainly be communicating urgency if the timing of the Day of Wrath is known and coming quickly.

There is an intriguing parallel between the 3 1/2 years that Eliyahu stopped the rain during King Ahab’s reign (I Kings 17:1) and the future 3 1/2 years of Great Tribulation. Yet again, it is uncertain how soon Eliyahu will come before the beginning of the 42 months, but we should find comfort in knowing that a great prophet will be warning the sheep before the Terrible Day. Just make sure your ears are open and willing to hear his message (much of the Christian, Jewish, and Secular world will oppose him). His message will not contradict the Prophets of the Tanakh. It will resemble Malachi 3-4 especially. And just like those righteous prophets of old, the people will want to kill Eliyahu too.

I highly recommend Tim McHyde’s book, Know the Future. He goes into much greater detail regarding Elijah’s arrival and other things to expect and watch for.

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Priests (Cohanim) of Future Temple Get Fitted For Holy Garments

Future Temple Jewish Priests Get Fitted For Holy Garments (Arutz Sheva).

“(IsraelNN.com) As the Jewish People continue their national return to their ancestral homeland, tailors at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem’s Old City began taking measurements of Kohanim (the priestly tribe designated to run the Temple services) earlier this month in anticipation of an even bigger event — the dedication of the Third Temple.”

“Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute, presided over the first-ever fitting of Kohanim for their priestly garments. “Today, in this room, Kohanim are being measured for the first time in 2,000 years for the type of garments they will be wearing in the rebuilt Temple,” announced Glick to an audience of rabbis, reporters and cameramen on hand to witness the historic event.”

Bible Publishers Sued for Anti-Homosexual References

Newsmax reporting Bible Publishers Sued for Anti-Gay References:

A Michigan man is seeking $70 million from two Christian publishers for emotional distress and mental instability he received during the past 20 years from versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin.

Bradley LaShawn Fowler, a gay man, claims his constitutional rights were infringed upon by Zondervan Publishing Co. and Thomas Nelson Publishing, both of which, he claims, deliberately caused homosexuals to suffer by misinterpretation of the Bible.

This is a classic example of our culture calling “evil good and good evil”.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Society is snow balling into moral confusion and decay partially because they have let man-made rules define our cultural values while neglecting what the actual scriptures say (in both Christianity and Judaism) and then when the rest of society (that part which would have no rules (except the rule to have no rules)) gains judicial control over the rest of us, we have to submit and/or be punished based upon their rule to have no rules. Here is the growing theme: “There are absolutely no absolutes and by golly don’t cause me any mental or emotional distress or I’ll sue you and yours for 70 mill.”

Fowler admits that every Bible printed is a translation that can be interpreted in many ways, but he says specifically using the word “homosexual” is not a translation but a change.

Fowler is most concerned with 1 Corinthians 6:9. See three major version translations below:

(NIV) Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

(KJV) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

(ASV) Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

The underlying Greek word being translated differently is: Arsenokoites (G733), which has generally been thought to mean “a sodomite: abuser of self with mankind” and is derived from the Greek word: Koite (G2749) which means “a couch; by extension cohabitation; by implication the male sperm: bed, chambering, X conceive”. By looking at the context of the verse, I’m curious how else homosexuals think this word could be alternatively translated.

Largely because people have been taught that “Jesus nailed the Law to the Cross”, they seem to forget Apostle Paul was not deriving his statements, as in 1 Corinthians, from living in a vacuum. He was a Jew from the Israelite tribe of Benjamin who had likely memorized the entire text of the Torah (if not large tracts of it). And the Torah plainly says this:

Leviticus 20:13 ‘And a man who lies with a male as he lies with a woman: both of them have done an abomination, they shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Just as in ancient Israel, individuals today are not allowed to “take the Law into their own hands”. Homosexuals were put to death by the assembly of Israelite Elders (Judges). Vigilantes were rare and rarely accepted. We now have a system of Judges in the USA which also have the right in some states to put persons to death for some crimes, but Homosexuality has not been a crime punishable with death for a very long time in this country. Currently, if a person murders a homosexual for being homosexual, that person him/herself would also be put to death in some states or at least go to prison for life. And no one is forcing homosexuals to read the Bible translations which cause them deserved emotional distress and no one is forcing them to fellowship with people who do read those Bible translations and rightly teach against homosexuality.

I’ve had homosexual friends and lovingly talked with them and disagreed with their behavior, but I do not think they themselves are evil. I see their activity/actions as evil. Men were simply not designed to lie with other men and that is why it is considered abominable and wickedness. Wickedness (Ra) is basically defined in Hebrew as breaking the design/function of something. See my article What does the word “Wickedness” mean in Hebrew? for more details.

Sadly, one of my concerns in posting this is whether or not my webhost will one day turn off my domain account simply because of my Torah-stance on this issue or similar controversial issues. Even so, Torah is Light, and I must speak the Light as long as I am able. The World hates the Light because mankind loves darkness more than Light (John 3:19).

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