By Yedidah, November 1, 2007.
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Yahuweh judges mankind as a whole for three main reasons:
- For the rejection of Yahuweh and His Torah as Rule over them
- For “transgression”--“rebellion, revolt, apostasy, break away, sin-- against the Torah. (I John 3:4)
- For the harming of His people and His Land--the dividing of His land among His enemies, plotting and carrying out evil against His people.
The Word is focused on one Land area, one family group through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, one everlasting Covenant, one Salvation, one Torah (teachings and instructions of the Kingdom of heaven), one Kingdom, one King, and one Elohim. It is not universal—it is localized in a rectangle. The eternal inheritance of those who have the witness of Yahushua Messiah and obey the Covenant of Yahuweh will be in this rectangle. (Ezekiel 48) Eternal life is on earth—forever, for the righteous.
The Covenant of Yahuweh was renewed, like the moon is renewed each month, in the blood of Yahushua. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) The Covenant of Yahuweh with His people is a marriage covenant.
There is “justification”—being made right (righteous) with Yahuweh through the blood of Messiah Yahushua. There is “set-apartness” (“sanctification”) unto Yahuweh—which is being made right (righteous) through obedience to His Covenant Torah. The two are different…but if not coupled together as one, cancel each other out.
His Torah (Yahuweh’s Teachings and Instructions of the Kingdom of heaven given to us for right life on this earth) is for all mankind. Judgment is based on how it is obeyed or not obeyed, depending on our knowledge of it. Since it encompasses the entire Bible, anyone who has a Bible or hears the Covenant spoken, is responsible to it.
There is one Torah for all who want to be in right standing with the King of Israel. (Ecclesiastes 12:13; Exodus 12:49; Leviticus 24:22; Numbers 15:16)
Torah is the plumb-line for a good life on earth, and of eternal judgment. Faith by itself is dead. (Ja’cob 2:14-26) If it is not backed by “works” in alignment with His Covenant, then it is useless and a fake.
“Works” is obedience to Torah—the working out of faith. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:2:12). We will all be judged by works—our adherence to the plumb-line of Yahuweh’s Torah by faith. Our eternal reward and position is dependent on our obedience to the Covenant of the Kingdom of heaven. Our faith is a sham—a fake, hypocrisy--unless we are responsible citizens in the Kingdom of heaven. (Philippians 3:20-21)
It is the Word that judges us. The “Word” talked about in the Word is the Tenach (an acronym for Torah, Prophets and Writings, misnamed by the despisers of Torah: “The Old Testament”). It is the eternal plumb-line, the tree of life, the right-rulings, the marriage covenant with His people.
John 12:48-49: “He that rejects Me and receives not My words has one that judges him, and the Word that I have spoke, the same shall judge Him in the last day, because I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command what I should say and what I should speak”.
Messiah Yahushua was and is the living Torah—the “Word made flesh”--the Eternal Word. He was the embodiment of the Torah. (John 1:1, 14) Yahushua’s disciples called him: “Ha Torah”—the Torah.
To reject the Torah, therefore, is to reject the Messiah! You can’t separate the Living Word of Elohim from Yahushua, who spoke creation into existence! He came to renew and expand the Torah (Matthew 5:17-19), to make it complete—not to do away with it.
Scriptures on judgment according to works by individuals:
Notice that most of the Scriptures are in what the rejecters of Torah have misnamed: the “New Testament”. The Jews always knew that their salvation was by faith—that works were simply the outward manifestation of what they believed. “The just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4)
Animal sacrifices were offered—not to take away sin, but to show that sin had already been forgiven by their repentance and faith. Therefore, in many Scriptures in the Tenach (acronym for Torah, Prophets and Writings), Yahuweh talks about forgiving and removing sin.
Revelation 22:12: “And see, I am coming speedily, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work”.
Revelation 2:23: “…And I shall give to each one of you according to your works”.
Jeremiah 17:10: “I, Yahuweh, search the heart, I try the loins, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds”.
I Peter 1:17: “And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear…”
Matthew 19:16-17
John 3:36: “He who believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him”.
Ja’cob 2:14, 17,19, 24, 26: “My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has faith but does not have works? This faith is unable to save him…So also faith, if it does not have works, is in itself dead…You believe that Elohim is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and tremble…You see, then, that a man is declared right by works, and not by faith alone…For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith is dead without works”.
John 5:28-29: “Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to the resurrection of judgment”.
Matthew 12:36-37: “And I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you shall be declared righteous and by your words shall you be declared unrighteous”.
Matthew 16:27: “For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His messengers, and He shall reward each one according to his works”.
Jonah 3:10: “And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And Elohim relented from the evil He had said He would do to them”.
Luke 3:7-8: “And he (John the baptizer) said to the crowds that came out to be immersed by him, `brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore, bear fruit worthy of repentance…let him who has two undergarments share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise. And tax collectors also came to be immersed…and he said to them, `Collect no more than what is appointed for you’, and soldiers also…and He said to them, `Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.’ ” (Italics mine)
Matthew 19:16-17: “And see, one came and said to Him, `…What good shall I do to have everlasting life? And He said to him…`If you wish to enter into life guard the commandments’”. Prove your faith! (Ja’cob 2:18, 22)
Proverbs 24:12: “…and shall He not repay man according to His works?”
Ezekiel 33:20: “And you have said, `The way of Yahuweh is not fair’. O house of Israel, I shall judge every one of you according to his own ways”.
I Corinthians 3:11-15: “For no one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is Yahushua Messiah. And if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or straw, each man’s work shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of every one, what sort it is. If anyone’s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire”.
II Timothy 2:15, 19-21: “Do your utmost to present yourself approved unto Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth…However, the solid foundation of Elohim stands firm, having this seal `Yahuweh knows those who are His’, and `Let everyone who names the Name of Messiah turn away from unrighteousness’. But, in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some unto value and some unto no value. If, then, anyone cleanses himself from these things (sinful things), he shall be a vessel unto value, having been set-apart for good use to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.” (Italics mine)
Luke 12:37, 47-48: “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, shall find watching…And that servant who knew his master’s desire, and did not prepare, nor did according to his desire, shall be beaten with many stripes, but he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few stripes. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be required.”
II Corinthians 5:9-10: “And we also make it our aim to be well-pleasing to Him, whether being at home or being away from home. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, in order for each one to receive according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil”.
Romans 14:10, 12: “But why do you judge your brother?…For we all shall stand before the judgment seat of Messiah…For each one of us, therefore, shall give account of himself to Elohim”.
I John 2:3-7: “And by this we know that we know Him—if we guard His commandments. The one who says, `I know Him’ and does not guard His commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him. For whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him…The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked. Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command, which you had from the beginning. The old command is the Word, which you heard from the beginning.”
We have to go back to the definition of sin in I John 3:4: “Everyone doing sin does also Torah-lessness—lawlessness—and sin is the transgression--rebellion, revolt, apostasy, sin-- against the Torah”. (Italics mine)
Individual judgment comes when we transgress—revolt against the Torah—and thus revolt against Yahuweh and Messiah Yahushua.
A major part of “works”—obedience to Torah--is to fear Yahuweh and depart from evil.
Proverbs 9:10; 8:13: “The fear of Yahuweh is the beginning of wisdom…The fear of Yahuweh is to hate evil…”
Mankind in general has rejected Yahuweh and His Torah, lives in continual rebellion and revolt against His Torah. The world’s major leaders are conspiring now (Psalm 2) to divide up Yahuweh’s Land, destroy His set-apart ones in Israel, and world wide, and to give His Land to His enemies and the enemies of His chosen elect from the twelve tribes of Jacob.
Specific Scriptures as to why Yahuweh must judge mankind as a whole:
Isaiah 5:24: “Therefore a tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, their root is as rottenness, and their blossom goes up like dust—because they have rejected the Torah of Yahuweh of hosts, and despised the Word of the set-apart One of Israel”.
Isaiah 24:1, 3-6: “And Yahuweh is making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overthrow its surface and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants…the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered for Yahuweh has spoken this word. The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither the haughty people of the earth shall languish. For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torah, changed the Law, broken the everlasting Covenant. Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned and few men left”.
Jeremiah 6:19: “Hear O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My Words, nor My Torah—and they rejected it”.
Excerpts from Jeremiah 7:23-29: “But this Word I did command them saying, `Obey My voice and I shall be your Elohim and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you that it might be well with you’. But they did not obey, or incline their ear, but walked in their own councils, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backwards and not forward…This is a nation that did not obey the voice of Yahuweh their Elohim, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and been cut off from their mouth…take up a lamentation on the bare heights, for Yahuweh has rejected and forsake the generation of His wrath”.
Jeremiah 8:9: “The wise shall be put to shame, they shall be broken down and caught. See, they have rejected the Word of Yahuweh, so what wisdom do they have?”
Jeremiah 9:12-14a: “Who is the wise man that he understands this? …Why has the land perished? …And Yahuweh says, `Because they have forsaken My Torah, which I set before them and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it, but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart…’”
Jeremiah 11:10-11: “They have turned back to the wickedness of their forefathers who refused to hear My Words and they have gone after their own gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My Covenant that I made with their fathers. Therefore, thus says Yahuweh, `See, I am bringing evil on them, which they are unable to escape. Then they shall cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them’ ”.
Jeremiah 15:1, 6: “And Yahuweh said to me, `Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people. Send them away from My presence, let them go’. `You who have forsaken Me’, declares Yahuweh, `you have gone backwards. Therefore, I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I have been weary of relenting’ ”.
My Note: In all these Scriptures don’t think this is simply referring to the ancient house of Judah (the tribes of Judah (Jew)—Levi and Benjamin) or the house of Israel/Ephraim/Joseph (the other ten northern tribes of Jacob). He only has one people—descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He only has One Covenant with one people—and it is RENEWED to these two houses by the blood of Messiah (Jeremiah 31:31-34). He made no covenant with the pagans, barbarians, heathen, aliens, foreigners or strangers—in English “gentiles”. If you are in Messiah—you are NOT a gentile. He never, calls His people “gentiles”—barbarians, pagans, heathen, foreigners, strangers, aliens.
Almost all of us have either biological ties to either the house of Judah or the house of Israel, because of Yahuweh’s scattering them into all nations (1000-722 BCE and 586 BCE and 70 CE), thus fulfilling the prophecy to Abraham that his seed (biological seed) would be as the stars of the heavens and the sand of the sea. But, biology or not, we all have been grafted into the tree of Israel by faith in Messiah, therefore brought into the Covenant of Israel (Ephesians 2:8-19). We must be in Covenant relationship with Yahuweh, citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, therefore responsible to obey His Kingdom Instructions, IF we want to stay in His Kingdom.
The greatest idol worshippers in the world are Americans and Europeans of the free West. It was for idol worship, created by their first King, Jeroboam, that He scattered the ten northern tribes into all nations. As a whole the house of Israel has not changed. The “wild olive branch” is an olive branch. The olive tree pictures the nation of Israel.
It is to the House of Israel, primarily, that He is calling: Repent, turn, return to the Covenant, the Torah, and to Me, Yahuweh! (Hosea 2-3 is about the lost ones). Messiah only came for the “lost sheep of the house of Israel”—the ten northern tribes--understanding why is to understand why He had to die, and why the Apostles only went to the “lost sheep”. (Matthew 15:24; 10:5-6)
Jeremiah 16:10-11: “…Why has Yahuweh pronounced this great evil upon us? …`Because your fathers have forsaken Me’, declares Yahuweh, `and have walked after gods and served them, and have forsaken Me, and did not guard My Torah’ ”.
Jeremiah 32:22-23: “And You gave them this land, of which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil on them”.
Jeremiah 40:3: “And Yahuweh has brought it on and has done as He has said. Because you have sinned against Yahuweh and did not obey His voice therefore this thing has come upon you”. (The words of Nebuchadnezzar’s Captain to Jeremiah, when Nebuchadnezzar came in and destroyed Jerusalem)
Ezekiel 5: 5-6, 8, 11: “Thus says the Master Yahuweh, `This is Jerusalem which I have set in the midst of the gentiles with the other lands all around her. But, she rebelled against My right rulings, doing wrong more than the gentiles…For they have rejected My right-rulings and they have not walked in My laws… Therefore, …Look, I Myself am against you and shall execute judgments in your midst before the eyes of the gentiles…because you have defiled My set-apart place with all your disgusting things and with all your abominations, therefore I also withdraw. And My eye shall not pardon nor shall I spare’ ”.
My Note: What disgusting abominations do Americans and Europeans and those in other “free Christian nations” bring before Yahuweh, thinking they are good and right? Because Christianity has rejected the Torah, and substituted pagan things for His ways and days, there is much abomination done by those who think they are very good people.
Ezekiel 16:49-50, 58-59: “`See, this was the crookedness of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, sufficiency of bread, and unconcerned ease. And she did not help the poor and needy. And they were haughty and did abomination before Me, and I took them away when I saw it…and you shall bear your wickedness and your abomination’, says Yahuweh. For thus says the Master Yahuweh, `I shall deal with you as you have done, in that you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant’ ”.
My note: There are many Scriptures that say He judges because people do not help the orphan, the widow, the needy, the poor, the foreigner, and the homeless. Basic Torah is to “love your neighbor as you love yourself” in practical application.
Ezekiel 20:23-24: “I Myself lifted up My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness to scatter them AMONG the gentiles and disperse them throughout the lands, because they had not done My right rulings and they rejected My laws, and they profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were on their father’s idols.”
Ezekiel 22:26, 31: “`Her priests have done violence to My teaching, and they profane (make common) My set-apart things. They have not distinguished between the set-apart and the profane, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean. And they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths and I am profaned (made common) in their midst….Therefore, I have poured out My displeasure on them. I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath. And I have put their way on their own head’, declares the Master Yahuweh”. (Italics mine)
My note: The one set-apart sign of identification with Yahuweh is the Sabbath/Shabbat—the setting aside of the seventh day unto Him—Friday sunset to Saturday sunset with two simple rules—no working and no making anyone else work for you. The church teaches against the Shabbat, as being the “law of the Jews”, when it is the Torah of Yahuweh.
Daniel 9:11, 13: “And all Israel have transgressed Your Torah and turned aside, so as not to obey Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Moses, the servant of Elohim, have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him…As it is written in the Torah of Moses, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of Yahuweh our Elohim, to turn back from our crookedness and to study Your Truth”. (Part of Daniel’s prayer of repentance for the nation of Israel)
Hosea 8:1: “Put the ram’s horn to your mouth, like an eagle against the House of Yahuweh, because they have transgressed My Covenant, and they have rebelled against My Torah”.
Hosea 8:12; 9:17: “For I have written them numerous things of My Torah—they were regarded as strange…My Elohim rejects them, because they have not obeyed Him, so that they become wanderers AMONG the gentiles”.
My Note: There is a pattern of ten things Yahuweh does to judge His people. The final and worst of them has been for Him to scatter His people out of the Land of Israel. It was His last resort. This is His greatest punishment on us. Therefore, He spoke to me a few years ago: “All of My people outside of My Land are in captivity”. There is one thing that He is doing now, “…with all My heart and with all My soul”—and that is to bring a remnant of all of the tribes of Jacob home to His Land/our Land—eternal inheritance. (Jeremiah 32:41) This “return” is the greatest subject discussed in Scripture in context with Yahushua’s return.
Joel 3:2: “…then I shall gather all gentiles and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshphat (the north Kidron Valley in front of the Eastern Gate of the Temple Mount). And there I shall enter into judgment with them there for My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered AMONG the gentiles, and they have divided up My Land”. (Italics mine)
In this same context: Matthew 25:31-46—Messiah will sit in judgment to divide between the nations that blessed Israel and those that did not. The ones who blessed Israel, particularly the Jews (tribe of Judah)—“My brethren”—receive “everlasting life”. The ones who did not bless the Jews, but hurt them, will be sent into “everlasting punishment”. Again, judged by works of righteousness or unrighteousness.
Amos 2:4: “Thus says Yahuweh, `For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I do not turn back, because they have rejected the Torah of Yahuweh and did not guard His laws. And their lies after which their fathers walked lead them astray’ ”.
Amos 2:6-7: “Thus says Yahuweh, `For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I do not turn back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals, who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name’ ”.
Amos 7:8-9: “And Yahuweh said to me, `Amos, what do you see’? And is said, `a plumb-line’. And Yahuweh said, `See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, no longer do I pardon them. And the high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the set-apart places of Israel shall be destroyed. And I shall rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam’ ”.
My note: What made the “house of Jeroboam”—the first King of the northern tribes after they split from the southern tribes--so evil? (I Kings chapters 11, 12, 13) He did what the Emperor Constantine did, and what was perpetuated from that to us today: 1) He replaced the worship of Yahuweh with man-made idols, man-created gods, 2) He replaced the priesthood of Yahuweh with his own selection, 3) He replaced Yahuweh’s Sabbath with worship on another day; He replaced the Festivals and Yahuweh with his own festivals at different times, 4) He replaced the Torah of Yahuweh with his own rules and regulations, and 5) He said that they didn’t have to go to Jerusalem, as the Tenach prescribes, for the Festivals—they could stay home and have their own festivals, their own holidays--in their own way. Jerusalem was and still is Yahuweh’s center of operation for His set-apart “moed’im”—times and seasons.
He twisted the Word of Elohim to fit his own agenda. This is across board what Christianity has done!
Habakkuk 1:3b-4: “For ruin and violence are before me, and there is strife and contention arising. Therefore, the Torah ceases and right-rulings never go forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.”
The Torah is the plumb-line of truth, and without it there is no standard of right and wrong in the earth! (Amos 7:7-8) Once He drops the plumb-line, there is no more waiting—judgment is imminent.
Zephaniah 3:4: “Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the set-apart place, they have done violence to the Torah”.
Modern so-called prophets, rich and esteemed by the world, have thrown out the Torah, and speak from their own head. (Ezekiel 13)
Zechariah 7:9-12: “Thus says Yahuweh of hosts, `Execute true right-ruling, show kindness and compassion everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another’. But, they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing. And they made their hearts like flint against the Torah and the words, which Yahuweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from Yahuweh of hosts. And I scattered them with a strong wind AMONG the gentiles, which they had not known. And the Land was laid waste from behind them, no one passing through or returning, for they made the pleasant Land a waste”.
If Yahuweh sent the Torah by His Spirit, then why don’t we obey it? It is the Word that the whole Word talks about.
II Chronicles 24:20: “Then the Spirit of Elohim came upon Zechariah, son of Yehoyada the priest, who stood above the people and said to them: `Thus said Elohim: Why are you transgressing the commands of Yahuweh, and do not prosper? -- Because you have forsaken Yahuweh, He has forsaken you’ ”.
II Chronicles 34:20a, 21: “And the King commanded Hilkiah, `Go inquire of Yahuweh for me, and for him who is left in Israel and in Jerusalem, concerning the words of the Book that is found. For great is the wrath of Yahuweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not guarded the Word of Yahuweh, to do according to all that is written in this Book’ ”.
II Chronicles 36:20-21: “And those who escaped from the sword he exiled to Babylon…in order to fulfill the Word of Yahuweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths until seventy years were completed”.
Judah was exiled for 70 years into Babylon because they did not let the land rest every seventh year, as Yahuweh commanded, for 490 years. This is how seriously He takes His commands. (490 divided by 7 = 70 years)
Matthew 7:21-23: “Not everyone who says to Me, `Master, Master’, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he who is doing the will of My Father in the heavens. Many shall say to Me in that day, `Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and done many mighty works in Your name?’ And then I shall declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from me you who work lawlessness’ ”. (The Greek word for “lawlessness” here is “anomia”—which means “without the Torah).
Leviticus 26:14-15, 18, 33-35, 43: “But, if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands, and if you reject My laws, or if your soul loathes My right rulings, so that you do not do all My commands but break My Covenant, …then I will punish you seven times for your sins…And I will scatter you AMONG the gentiles and draw out a sword after you…And the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right rulings and because they loathed My laws”.
Deuteronomy 28:1, 15 (summary of verses 15-28): “And it shall be if you diligently obey the voice of Yahuweh your Elohim to guard to do all His commands which I command you this day, that Yahuweh your Elohim shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth…And it shall be if you do not obey the voice of Yahuweh your Elohim to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you”.
He proceeds to list the curses. Many Christians quote Deuteronomy 28:2-14 as promises for their blessing, leaving out verse 1. Without obeying verse 1, the following blessings are null and void to you. Without your obedience to Psalm 91:1, the promises of protection are not for you. Everything is with condition. This is covenant—we have our part, He has His. He’s done His part, now we must do ours.
A careful reading of I and II Kings, and Isaiah through Malachi, will give you an overview of why He has to judge.
Isaiah 34:1-6; 63:1-6; Zechariah 14:1-5, and hundreds of other verses in the Tenach and the Messianic Writings show that He comes with the Father’s wrath against the wicked, and to rescue His set-apart ones. There are many descriptions of Messiah’s return with the wrath of Yahuweh, as in Revelation 11:15-19; 14:14-20; 19:11-19; Matthew 13:24-50, Jude 1:14-15, as examples. In fact, in Revelation 11:18, at the last trumpet, it says, “Now is Your wrath come”…and then He descends.
These are the biggest subjects in the entire Scriptures--all inter-related: The re-gathering and preservation of a remnant of the whole house of Jacob (all the tribes), the return of a remnant to the Land before and at His coming, the return of Messiah Yahushua to set up His Kingdom and to destroy the wicked who have harmed His people and His land, and who have despised and rejected His Father’s Torah.
Be aware that there is only one religion on earth, parroting the mockery, rejection and despising of the Torah by ancient Greek and Roman emperors from BCE until now. Today this rejection and despising of Yahuweh and His Torah (Psalm 2) has hidden in modern Greek culture--the world government political and economic systems--and in modern Rome--the world religious system of the Vatican and her Protestant “daughters”.
Only one religion expressly teaches its people that the Kingdom teachings and instructions of Yahuweh are obsolete and have been replaced by its institution—Christianity, named for a Greek god. In truth, Christianity begun by Greeks and institutionalized by Rome, have replaced Yahuweh and His Truth and His Jewish Messiah with Greek philosophy, Greek Gnosticism, Greek and Roman culture, and an emperor-style worship of man, cloaking the Jewish Messiah in the garments of a Greek god. The Hellenized Jews and Greeks in the first century joined and broke away from (rebelled against, revolted against) the teachings of the Apostles. The Apostles battled this.
Messiah never came to destroy His Torah, but to renew it in His own blood, and expand it, and complete it. (Mathew 5:17-19) Judgment will still be based on our adherence to His eternal Word.
There comes a time when mercy is over. Yahuweh can do no more. The polarizing is now moving at a fast pace—the wicked are becoming more proud in their wickedness, their despising of Torah by word and action—and the set-apart are becoming more set-apart. (Revelation 22:11) Those in between will be vomited out of His mouth, for He hates a mixture of good and evil (Revelation 3:15-17)
Here are Scriptures showing times that His mercy is finished. He has had great patience with mankind, but there is a cut-off point! There was a day that the deep broke up and the flood began. There will be a day when the chaff and the tares are burned, and the righteous gathered into His Kingdom!
In Genesis 6:3, we see that His Spirit strives with man 120 years. It is understood (Hebrew understanding) that it is 120 Jubilee years. The Jubilee occurs every 50 years: Therefore 120 X 50 = 6,000 years.
From before Messiah’s coming to this day, scholars of the Scriptures, Jewish and Christian, have said that man is given 6,000 years, and in the 7-thousandth year, Messiah would come. (See some of these quotes in Appendix A of “The Forty-Eight Hour Transition”)
We are now inside the 7-thousandth millennium, as of Tishre 1, September 29, 2001—end of first the first of three 7-year cycles. Jews believed that the time of Messiah coming would 6,000 years from the creation of Adam. He was created in the sixth day. So, they said (about 400 years ago), when they rediscovered the seven-year cycles from the time of Joshua, that Messiah would come in the last 7-year cycle—which is 2007-2015 Roman calendar, or 2008 from Tishre 1, to Tishre 1 2016. (Refer to: “The Shmittah Year Prophecy”)
These Scriptures speak for themselves:
Deuteronomy 29:19-20; 31:17-18;
Jeremiah 7:16-17; 11:14; 13:14; 14:10-11; 15:1
Ezekiel 5:11; 7:4, 8:18; 9; 9:10 (read 1-11)
Amos 7:7-8
Zechariah 11:6
Revelation 14:6-10, 14-20
Use all these Scriptures as a springboard for your own studies.
Shalom from Israel,
Yedidah
November 1, 2007
NOTE: For more study on the sign of identification with Yahuweh, the Sabbath/Shabbat, ask for the article “The Sign of Identification”.
For more study on the pattern of the judgment of Yahuweh, which gives the ten ways He judges, ask for the article “The Pattern of the Judgment of Yahuweh”.
For more information on the tribes and your not being a gentile ask for the two articles: “Are You A Gentile?” and “Who Are the Ten?”
For more information on how to discern between a true Biblical-style prophet from today’s false prophets, ask for: “The Message of the True Prophet” and “Exposing Kim Clement and Other False Prophets”.