There has never been a nation in the history of the world that had lost it’s homeland for more than 2,500 years and then re-emerged from its ancient form. That is until 1948. That is the year that Israel regained its ancient land and its ancient language and its ancient promises. Why did these things have to happen after so many years, and what is next for the nation of Israel?

      The reason that Israel became a nation after over 2,500 years has to do with the promises made to one man over 3,800 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia. That man’s name is Abraham. Because of the covenant that the Creator of the universe (who is named YAHWEH in the bible) made to Abraham, there are three things that can never change as long as this earth exists.

1) THE PEOPLE – YAHWEH, Elohim made a promise that the covenant that He would make would be with the seed of Abraham.

Gen 17:7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be an Elohim to you and to your seed after you.

But the promise of the everlasting covenant was not just to any son of Abraham, but one son in particular.

Gen 17:19 And Elohim said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

Very clearly from scripture it was Abraham’s son Isaac whom the promise of the everlasting covenant would come through. Then the promise was to go through Isaac, to his son Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. Israel then had 12 sons who are called in scripture the House or Sons of Israel. The modern day Jews are one of the descendants of one of the 12 sons of Israel whose name was Judah. The other sons of Israel are still scattered around the earth in Diaspora today.

Psa 105:5 Remember His wonders that He has done, His miracles, and the judgments of His mouth,

Psa 105:6 O seed of His servant Abraham; O sons of Jacob, His elect.

Psa 105:7 He is Yahweh our Elohim; His judgments are in all the earth;

Psa 105:8 He has remembered His covenant forever; the Word He commanded to a thousand generations;

Psa 105:9 which He cut with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac;

Psa 105:10 and He established it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for a perpetual covenant;

Psa 105:11 saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance;

2) THE LAND – Besides the everlasting covenant always being with the Children of Israel, there is another everlasting point about this covenant that Yahweh, the Creator of the universe, made with Abraham.

Gen 12:6 And Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Gen 12:7 And YAHWEH appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And he built an altar there to YAHWEH, who appeared to him.

Part of this covenant agreement was that Yahweh, the Creator of the universe, would give the land of Canaan (later to be changed to the land of Israel) to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Israel.

Gen 13:14 And after Lot had separated from him, YAHWEH said to Abram, Now lift up your eyes and look northward and southward and eastward and westward from the place where you are.

Gen 13:15 For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed always.

Gen 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your seed also will be counted.

This was the same land that Joshua the attendant of Moses brought the children of Israel to 430 years later.

Deut 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And YAHWEH caused him to see all the land; Gilead to Dan;

Deut 34:2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah to the sea beyond;

Deut 34:3 and the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

Deut 34:4 And YAHWEH said to him, This is the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.

Clearly, the promise made to the House of Israel was eternal life in the promised land of Israel. Never did Yahweh promise mankind that He would inherit heaven or any other place than the physical land of Israel.

Those who are worthy to rule with the Messiah of Israel in His millennium kingdom will be ruling on earth from the physical land of Israel, in the city of Jerusalem.

Rev 5:10 and made us kings and priests to our Elohim; and we shall reign over the earth.

Mic 4:1 But it shall be in the end of the days, the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be established on the top of the mountains; and it shall be lifted up from the hills; and peoples shall flow on it.

Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob. And He will teach us from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For the Torah shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

Isa 11:6 And the wolf shall live with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy shall lead them.

Isa 11:7 The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isa 11:8 And the infant shall play on the hole of the asp; yea, the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper’s den.

Isa11:9 They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Isa 11:10 And it shall be in that day, the Root of Jesse stands as a banner of peoples; nations shall seek to Him; and His resting place shall be glory.

Isa 11:12 And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and gather those dispersed from Judah, from the four wings of the earth.

Isa 11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria, as it was to Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt. (There will be a highway from Egypt and Assyria coming to the physical land of Israel)

This brings us to the third point which will never change in any biblical covenant relationship.

3) The Torah– The word of the Creator YAHWEH stands forever and does not change.

Psa 111:6 He hath showed His people the power of His works, that He may give them the heritage of the heathen.

Psa 111:7 The works of His hands are verity and judgment; all His commandments are sure.

Psa 111:8 They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

Psa 111:9 He sent redemption unto His people; He hath commanded His covenant forever; holy and reverend is His name.

Psa 111:10 The fear of YAHWEH is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments; His praise endures forever.

Psa 19:7 The Law of Yahweh is perfect, converting the soul. The Testimony of Yahweh is sure, making the simple wise.

Psa 19:8 The precepts of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart. The commands of Yahweh are pure, giving light to the eyes.

Psa 19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of Yahweh are true, they are righteous altogether.

Psa 19:10 They are more precious than gold, even much fine gold, and sweeter than honey and drops from the honeycomb.

Psa 19:11 Also your servant is warned by them; in keeping of them is great reward.

Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words and store up My commands within you.

Pro 7:2 Keep My commands and live, and My law as the pupil of your eye.

Pro 7:3 Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Jos 1:8 This book of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you shall be on guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall prosper your way, and then you shall act wisely.

Mal 3:6 For I, Yahweh, change not. Because of this, you sons of Jacob are not destroyed.

When the children of Israel entered the Promised Land they were commanded to obey the Torah to have long life in the land. Yahweh the Creator of the universe does not change the way men do and His Torah is forever and the promises of blessing for obedience or cursing for disobedience, stand just as much today as they did for ancient Israel.

Lev 26:2 You shall keep My Sabbaths, and revere My sanctuary; I am YAHWEH.

Lev 26:3 If you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them,

Lev 26:4 then I will give you rains in their season, and the land shall give her produce, and the tree of the field shall give its fruit;

Lev 26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall terrify you. And I shall cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword shall not pass over into your land.

Lev 26:7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

But if they refused to obey the Torah this was to be the result:

Lev 26:14 And if you will not listen to Me, and do not do all these commands;

Lev 26:15 and if you reject My statutes, and if your soul hates My judgments, so as not to do all My commands, to the breaking of My covenant;

Lev 26:16 I will also do this to you, and I shall appoint terror over you, the wasting, and the burning fever, destroying the eyes, and consuming the soul; and you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies will eat it.

Lev 26:17 And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; and those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee, and there will be no one pursuing you.

Lev 26:18 And if after these things you will not listen to Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sin;

Lev 26:19 and I will break the pride of your strength, and will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;

Lev 26:20 and your strength shall be consumed in vain, and your land shall not give her produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit.

Lev 26:21 And if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins,

Ancient Israel broke the Torah of Yahweh the Creator and was cast out of the land of Israel for 2,520 years.

Eze 20:2 And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,

Eze 20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, So says YAHWEH: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, declares YAHWEH Elohim, I will not be inquired of by you.

Eze 20:19 I am YAHWEH your Elohim, walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them.

Eze 20:20 And keep My Sabbaths holy, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am YAHWEH your Elohim.

Eze 20:21 But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, and they did not keep My judgments, to do them, which if a man does them, he shall live by them. They profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.

Eze 20:23 And I lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and sow them among the lands,

Eze 20:24 because they had not done My judgments and had despised My statutes and had profaned My Sabbaths. And their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

The Northern Tribes of Israel were either taken into captivity to Assyria or fled to the lands of Carthage and Parthia and even Europe around 723- 722 B.C. The southern tribe of Israel mainly made up of Judah (The Jews) and Benjamin were taken to captivity by Babylon starting 605 B.C. until 573 B.C.

But this is not the end of the story. In the above quote in Malachi 3, we read I am Yahweh I change not, for this the Sons of Israel are not consumed. Yahweh is not like mankind; He does not go back on His word or promises and it is impossible for Him to lie. When He gives a promise, you can take it to the bank that He will perform the promise that He made. In Hebrew the word for promise is “dabar” and it is the same word for “speaking,”; meaning in Hebrew, whatever you speak you are responsible to perform it.

This is why Israel is a nation again today after almost 2,000 years. Because Yahweh the Creator of the universe and the Elohim of Israel made a promise to the Patriarch Abraham almost 3,800 years ago that mankind would receive redemption through His promised seed.

Luk 1:68 Blessed be the Yahweh Elohim of Israel; for He hath visited and redeemed His people,

Luk 1:69 and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David;

Luk 1:70 as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Luk 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

Luk 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant;

Luk 1:73 The oath which He swore to our father Abraham,

Luk 1:74 That He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear,

Luk 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life.

Luk 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins,

Mankind fell from grace since Adam and Eve rejected our Heavenly Father’s law back in the Garden of Eden. Our Heavenly Father had a judicial order to creation how everything should be done. There is judicial order to time and the rotation of the sun and the moon and the earth, so that we know when there is a new day and month and year.

So likewise the Creator Yahweh made judicial order to food. He created certain food good to eat such as fruits and plants and certain foods He made abominable, such as certain animals like the pig and the rat. Everything He created was good and nothing that He created was to be changed. There are certain Hebrew words that are only used for Elohim, and “barah” which means to create, is one of these words. You will never see the word “barah”, (to create) used in the bible for a human, only for Elohim. Humans were not creators but are created. The job of humans was to keep creation as Yahweh created it, not to change it according to what He thought it should be. This was Yahweh’s judicial order at creation.

When Adam and Eve decided to choose for themselves what food was good to eat and what food was not, in essence they rejected Yahweh’s ruler ship over them and they rejected His judicial order. They wanted to be creators which Yahweh did not create them to be. This is when the very first Messianic scripture occurs right after the fall of mankind.

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Right from this point it was prophesied that Yahweh would defeat satan who tempted mankind with his fall. Then the prophecy though, would go through one lineage, that of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and then later through King David to the Messiah.

The fall of man came because he did not totally trust Yahweh 100% for every decision that he would make. It takes faith to totally trust that every single word of scripture is inspired by Yahweh and is profitable in our life.

2nd Tim 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of Yahweh, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2nd Tim 3:17 That the man of Yahweh may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.

Abraham showed this faith in the Creator Yahweh by following everything that the Creator said without questioning His word at all, even to the point of sacrificing his only son Isaac.

Heb 11:17 By faith, being tested, Abraham offered up Isaac; and he receiving the promises was offering up the only begotten,

Heb 11:18 as to whom it was said, “In Isaac your Seed shall be called;” (Gen 21:12)

Heb 11:19 reckoning that Yahweh was able to raise even from the dead; from where indeed he obtained him in a parable.

What faith Abraham had in Yahweh the Creator! And believe me, this was not blind faith. Abraham was not just going to kill his son for the sake of it, but as Hebrews 11:19 states that he knew “that Yahweh was able to raise his son Isaac from the dead” if He had to.

Abraham showed such great faith, that in sacrificing his only son; this was a proto-type of what Yahweh the Father was going to do in sacrificing His only Son. Abraham was not only showing faith in Yahweh but he was showing faith in the resurrection and Isaac was a proto-type of the Messiah of Israel.

Gen 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac; and he took the fire and the knife in his hand. And the two went together.

Gen 22:7 And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, Elohim will provide the lamb for Himself, for a burnt offering. And the two of them went together.

Just as Yahshua of Nazareth, the only true Messiah of Israel would do later, so Isaac as the proto-type, even carried the wood on his back as Yahshua carried the cross beam for His own crucifixion. Yahweh would not cause Abraham to sacrifice his only son, but as Abraham said “Elohim will provide” as He did by sending His only Son Yahshua to die for the sins committed under the first covenant.

John 3:16 For Yahweh so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The plan of Yahweh since the Garden of Eden was to redeem mankind back to Himself for rebelling against His judicial order that He made at creation. This was to be done by sending His messenger, His right hand man so to speak, to pay the penalty of the sins that were committed by mankind.

Isa 59:1 Behold, the hand of Yahweh is not shortened from saving, nor is His ear heavy from hearing.

Isa 59:2 But your iniquities are coming between you and your Elohim; and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Isa 59:11 We all of us roar like bears, and moaning we moan like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for, Yahshua (salvation) but He is far from us.

Isa 59:12 For our rebellions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities;

Isa 59:13 transgressing and lying against Yahweh, and backsliding from our Elohim, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart.

Isa 59:14 And justice is driven back; and righteousness stands far off; for truth stumbles in the plaza, and right is not able to enter.

Isa 59:15 And the truth is lacking; and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey. And Yahweh saw; and it was evil in His eyes, that there was no justice.

Isa 59:16 And He saw that there was no man, and He was astonished that there was no intercessor. And His own arm saved for Him; and His righteousness sustained Him.

Isa 59:17 For He put on righteousness like armour, and the helmet of Yahshua on His head. And He put on robes of vengeance as clothing; and He put on zeal like a mantle.

Because of the faith of Abraham, Yahweh chose that the Messiah of Israel would be born from the seed of His loins and not only just any seed, but through the seed of promise who was Isaac.

Gal 3:16 But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed (it does not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” which is Messiah).

The promised Messiah was going to come through the seed of Abraham through Isaac through Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel). This is why Yahweh made covenant relationship only with the nation of Israel, because it was through the promise of faithful Abraham that salvation (Yahshua means salvation) would come to the world through the nation of Israel, in the form of the Messiah of Israel. Look at what it says in Isaiah about the redemptive work of the Messiah of Israel.

Isa 42:1 Behold My Servant; I will uphold Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Isa 42:6 I, Yahweh, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;

Yahshua the Messiah of Israel will eventually redeem all of mankind; but everything in judicial order. Yahweh made a promise to Abraham and the sons of Israel and He will complete His promise, first to bring salvation to the world through the nation of Israel and then He will also make covenant relationship with all nations during the 1,000 year reign of the Messiah.

In order to truly understand what Yahweh is doing today you have to think in terms of covenants and NOT religion. A covenant is an agreement by two parties where both parties have a certain obligation to fulfill. Covenants are most sacred and binding and the blood covenant is the most sacred of all covenant relationships.

Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham and with the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai. That is why since Mount Sinai Yahweh is working with the nation and descendants of Israel. It doesn’t mean that He does not care for all other people because He truly does, but everything within His judicial order. He is firstly working with the nation of Israel and then in the millennial Kingdom He will make covenant with all nations on earth at that time.

Amo 3:1 Hear this Word that Yahweh has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against all the family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

Amo 3:2a You only have I known of all the families of the earth.

Presently Yahweh has only made covenant with the nation of Israel, but in the millennium He will make covenant with all nations.

Isa 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations of Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the far away coasts that have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

Zec 14:16 And it shall be, everyone who is left from all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the millennial Kingdom all nations will be in covenant relationship, but until then, only the nation of Israel has Yahweh chosen to be in covenant with Him. This does not mean that someone who is a gentile from the nations can not join the New Covenant and become a seed of Abraham and enter covenant relationship with Yahweh.

Gal 3:26 for you are all sons of Yahweh through faith in Messiah Yahshua.

Gal 3:27 For as many as were baptized into Messiah, you put on Messiah.

Gal 3:28 There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is no slave nor freeman, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Messiah Yahshua.

Gal 3:29 And if you are of Messiah, then you are a seed of Abraham, even heirs according to promise.

Through faith in the Messiah of Israel, when someone is immersed into His name, then that person becomes a seed of Abraham (an Israelite) and an heir of the promise of Abraham to have eternal life in the land of Israel. But please get this fact straight in your mind that all covenant relationships in scripture are only with Israelites of the seed of Abraham. Until the millennium there are no covenant relationships in scripture for gentiles; only that gentiles can join themselves to the House of Israel.

Isa 14:1 For Yahweh will have pity on Jacob, and will yet choose among Israel, and set them in their own land. And the gentile shall be joined to them; and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

Rom 15:8 And I say, Yahshua Messiah has become a minister of circumcision for the truth of Elohim, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

Rom 15:9 and for the nations to glorify Yahweh for mercy, even as it has been written, “Because of this I will confess to You to the gentiles, and I will give praise to Your name.” (Psa 18:49)

Rom 15:10 And again He says, “Rejoice, you gentiles, with His people.” (Deut 32:43)

Rom 15:11 And again, “Praise Yahweh, all the gentiles, and praise Him all the peoples.” (Psa 117:1)

Rom 15:12 And again Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse shall be, and He rising up to rule the gentiles; on Him the gentiles will hope.” (Isa 11:10)

The New Covenant is not with gentiles and it is not with the church, but it with the nation of Israel.

Heb 8:8 For finding fault, He said to them, “Behold, days are coming, says Yahweh, and I will make an end on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah; a new covenant shall be,

Heb 8:9 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says Yahweh.

Heb 8:10 Because this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh, giving My Laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”

Clearly we see from scripture that the New Covenant is not with gentiles, it is not with the church, but it is with the House of Israel.

Only the House of Israel joined the Old Covenant that brought the death penalty for breaking it and only the House of Israel needed a Messiah to save them from the sins that were committed under that covenant agreement. That is why in the 1^st century A.D. there was so much expectation of a Jewish Messiah, being that it was the descendants of Israel that went into covenant relationship with Yahweh the Creator and it was the descendants of Israel that broke covenant relationship with the Creator Yahweh. So it was only the House of Israel that had a death penalty waiting for them for breaking that covenant. This does not mean that there is no penalty for sinning for the gentiles, as scripture plainly states;

Rom 5:14a but death reigned from Adam until Moses

And also,

Rom 3:23 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of Yahweh,

The question is not whether gentiles have sinned; it is evident that all humans that have ever lived have sinned; the question is what will the penalty of those sins be?

To the nation of Israel it is very clear what the penalty of their sins is under covenant relationship.

Eze 18:4 Behold, they are all My souls. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Israel made a contract (covenant) with the Creator that they could not keep. They contracted or better yet, covenanted to the Creator that they would obey all His Torah made up of the Commandments, the statutes and the judgments.

Deut 27:26 Cursed is he who does not rise to do all the Words of this Law, to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen!

This was a grave mistake. They entered an agreement that they could not keep. They covenanted with Yahweh the Creator that they would keep every law of the Torah and if they broke even one that they would be cursed. Joshua warned them before they entered this covenant not to do it, that it would be impossible for them to keep all the Torah and that because of the agreement that it would be impossible for Yahweh to forgive them when they sinned.

Jos 24:14 Now, then, fear Yahweh, and serve Him in sincerity and truth, and turn away from the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, and in Egypt; and you serve Yahweh.

Jos 24:15 And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, whether the gods whom your fathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.

Jos 24:16 And the people replied and said, Far be it from us to forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods.

Jos 24:17 For Yahweh our Elohim is He who has brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, and who has done these great signs before our eyes, and has preserved us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the people through whom we have passed.

Jos 24:18 And Yahweh has cast out all the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land before us. We also will serve Yahweh, for He is our Elohim.

Jos 24:19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Yahweh, for He is a holy Elohim; He is a jealous Elohim. He will not lift up from you your transgressions or your sins.

Jos 24:20 When you forsake Yahweh, and shall serve strange gods, then He will turn away and do evil to you, and consume you, after He has done good to you.

Jos 24:21 And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve Yahweh.

Jos 24:22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves, that you have chosen Yahweh for yourselves, to serve Him (for they said, We are witnesses).

Jos 24:23 And now turn away from the strange gods among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh the Elohim of Israel.

Jos 24:24 And the people said to Joshua, We will serve Yahweh our Elohim, and we will listen to His voice.

Jos 24:25 And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and laid on them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Jos 24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of Elohim, and took a great stone and raised it up there under the oak by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

Jos 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of Yahweh which He has spoken with us. And it shall be against you for a witness, that you not lie against your Elohim.

The first covenant at Mount Sinai did not have an avenue to forgive their sins, only to cover them year by year to keep the covenant going till the next year, but the blood of bulls and goats did not forgive the sins committed under the covenant agreement but only reminded them that they indeed needed redemption for those sins from the Messiah of Israel.

Heb 10:1 For the Law had a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of those things. Appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they never are able to perfect the ones drawing near.

Heb 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those serving did not still have conscience of sins, having once been cleansed.

Heb 10:3 But in these there is a remembrance of sins year by year,

Heb 10:4 for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

The nation of Israel was in a grave situation. They entered a covenant and agreed to obey Yahweh’s laws and made commitments that were impossible for them to keep; and once Yahweh’s word gave them this death sentence He had to follow through with it. Yahweh does not change and He cannot lie. He is not like man that will merely go back on His word or commitment, but His word will always accomplish what it sets out to do.

Isa 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Yahweh.

Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are high from the earth, so My ways are high from your ways, and My thoughts from your thoughts.

Isa 55:10 For as the rain and the snow comes down from the heavens and do not return there, except it waters the earth and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Isa 55:11 so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in what I sent it to do!

No, to the Nation of Israel, they were in a no win situation. They had a death penalty hanging over their heads; the Old Covenant had become a covenant of death to them. Their only hope was in the Messiah of ISRAEL.

Now the gentile nations on the other hand never went into covenant relationship with Yahweh. They never made the covenant agreement in Deut 27:26, that they would be cursed, if they broke one of Yahweh’s commandments.

This does not mean that they are not sinners, as every human being ever born (except the Messiah of Israel) has sinned and fallen short of the glory of Yahweh. But what it meant is that Yahweh could have more mercy on the gentiles, because He had no agreement with them. It meant that on judgment day He could lower the bar, so to speak and look at the intentions of their hearts, and since He did not have a covenant, relationship, agreement with the gentiles He could show more mercy to them.

Rom 11:31 so also these now have disobeyed, so that they also may obtain mercy by your mercy.

Rom 11:32 For Elohim shut up all into disobedience, that He may show mercy to them all.

On judgment Day Yahweh will look at the intent of the hearts of these gentiles and according to how much love they showed in this life and according to how many that are keeping His Torah without even knowing the Torah, they will be blessed for that. Many gentiles do not steal or lie, they are trustworthy in business, hospitable, many have been faithful in their marriage covenant with their wives and have tried to do their best even without knowing Yahweh or His Torah.

Rom 2:10 But glory and honour and peace will be to everyone working out good, both to the Jew first, and to the Gentile.

Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with Yahweh.

Rom 2:12 For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as sinned within Law will be judged through Law.

Rom 2:13 For not the hearers of the Torah are just with Yahweh, but the doers of the Torah shall be justified.

Rom 2:14 For when nations (gentiles) not having the Torah do by nature the things of the Torah, they not having Torah are a law to themselves,

Rom 2:15 who show the work of the Torah written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing with them, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing,

Rom 2:16 in a day when Yahweh judges the hidden things of men, according to my gospel, through Yahshua Messiah.

When is that day spoken of in verse 26? It is the great white throne judgment of course, where all those gentiles will be judged for the things done in this life good or evil. The righteous gentile people will be blessed in that day. Of course it stands to reason that they will have to also accept the Messiah of Israel, that is a given to anyone who wants to inherit eternal life.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, the small and the great, standing before Yahweh. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books, according to their works.

Act 4:10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Yahshua Messiah the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom Yahweh raised from the dead, in this name this one stands before you whole.

Act 4:12 and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved. (How important is the Saviours name!)

But to the nation of Israel it is much different. They had Yahweh’s laws revealed to them. They entered covenant relationship with Him, and had all His blessings poured out on them. They are much more accountable to a greater judgment because they were blessed with much greater understanding.

Luk 12:47 But that slave knowing the will of His Master, and not preparing, nor doing according to His will, will be beaten with many stripes.

Luk 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Israel has a much greater accountability before Yahweh, the Creator. Only Israel went into covenant relationship with Yahweh, the Creator and only Israel had that death penalty from that covenant relationship hanging over their heads. So yes, where all the earth needs the sacrifice of the Messiah of Israel for eternal life, in the case of the nation of Israel, it was even much more vital to them for the Messiah of Israel to appear, as they were generation after generation living in a covenant of death for breaking the covenant agreement, waiting for the Messiah to appear.

Please also understand the problem was not with the law or Torah of Yahweh, but the problem was with the inability for the people to keep the Torah under the covenant agreement.

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, (the fault was with the people not the torah) he says, Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Rom 7:12 So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

So when sin would enter by breaking the agreement, there was no way to have those sins removed under the first covenant; there was only one way, on Yom Kippur, to have them covered and carried over until the next year, waiting in all anticipation for the Messiah of Israel to come and finally pay the penalty and remove them completely. Even the word Kippur means “to cover,” not “remove;” the sins were covered on this day, but not removed until the penalty was paid for.

This is why a priesthood had to be added to the original Torah that was given in the Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden, before sin entered, there was no need for a priesthood or sacrificial system, but once sin entered, now Yahweh used the priesthood as a way to redeem fallen man back to him.

The word “sacrifice” in English, gives the connotation of “the giving up of something,” where the Hebrew word for sacrifice “Korban” actually means, “to draw closer to through relationship.” Ultimately the Messiah of Israel was going to be the High Priest of a Heavenly order to redeem the people under the Old Covenant and draw them back into covenant relationship with Yahweh. But until that time, Yahweh needed a bridge to get the people through the Old Covenant agreement in 1445 B.C. under Moses, until the Messiah of Israel would be born in 3 B.C. This bridge was called the Levitical priesthood.

Also recognize that when Yahweh took the children of Israel out of Egypt, He said nothing concerning a priesthood or sacrifices for sin, until the golden calf incident in Exodus 32.

Jer 7:21 So says Yahweh of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Jer 7:22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, concerning matters of burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jer 7:23 But I commanded them this thing, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. Also, Walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.

Originally Yahweh was going to have each man who was head of his family to be priest over his family, but after the golden calf incident only Levi was allowed to be priests, instead of their Israelite brothers.

Exo 19:6 And you shall become a kingdom of priests for Me, a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel.

The Levites were representing the first fruits of the Sons of Israel. They were a temporary priesthood that was added because of the greatness of the sins of the sons of Israel.

Gal 3:17 And I say this, A covenant having been ratified before to Messiah by Elohim, the Law coming into being four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.

Gal 3:19 Why the Law then? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the Seed should come, to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in a mediator’s hand.

What was the only law added to the Torah after Mount Sinai?

It was the Levitical priesthood. If you look at the covenant agreement in the book of Exodus, up until chapter 24 when the covenant is ratified you do not see anything about the Levitical order of the priesthood being representative for the people until after the covenant was ratified in chapter 24.

Many Christians falsely assume that this law is inclusively speaking about the whole Torah and that the Torah is no longer necessary to be kept since the Messiah of Israel has come. This could not be further from the truth and is another lie of the devil.

The law in Galatians 3:19 can not be talking about the whole Torah but is only talking about the one part of the law that was added because of sin, which is the Levitical priesthood with the sin offerings.

This is very easy to proof if you look at the fact that in verse 17 it states that whatever law is spoken about in verse 19 that it was added 430 years after the covenant agreement with Abraham. So the law that is being referred to in verse 19 is a law that was not with Abraham 430 years before, but was added at Mount Sinai 430 years after the agreement with Abraham. This proves it could not be speaking about the Torah as Abraham was blessed by Yahweh with the everlasting covenant agreement because Abraham obeyed Yahweh’s Torah and kept His commandments and his statutes and laws.

Gen 26:4 And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your Seed,

Gen 26:5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My Torah.

Clearly this proves that the Torah was NOT added at Mount Sinai, if Abraham was keeping it 430 years before. The only law that was added at Mount Sinai was the Levitical priesthood and the sacrificial system under it. This is the law that was abolished upon the Messiah’s return and was no longer necessary as it was merely a type of the true until the priesthood could be formally changed from the type (Levite) to the reality (Melchizedec).

Another interesting point about Genesis 26:5, in the original Hebrew it literally states that Abraham preserved Yahweh’s Torah and commandments. Abraham’s job was to preserve the Torah to his son Isaac, who preserved it to his son Jacob and then Jacob preserved it to the 12 tribes of Israel, but when they were captive in Egypt they lost the laws of the Torah and they had to be re-instituted again at Mount Sinai. The only law that was never given to Abraham but was now added at Mount Sinai was the Levitical Priesthood with all the animal sacrifices which would only last until the Messiah would come and the priesthood would change from Levi to Melchizedec.

John the Baptist was the son of Zachariah the priest. In Luke the first chapter Zachariah was burning incense on the altar when the cherub Gabriel appeared to him; only someone who was either high priest or in line to be high priest would do such an important job.

When you look at the genealogy of Zachariah you will see that he was indeed in a priestly line and John the Baptist who was truly a righteous man was in line to follow as possible High priest under the Levitical order.

Luk 1:8 And it happened in his serving as priest in the order of his course before Yahweh,

Luk 1:9 according to the custom of the priests, entering into the Holy Place of the Almighty, it was Zacharias’ lot to burn incense.

John the Baptist was the last of the Old Covenant prophets and last priest of Levi to have the legal right to the High Priesthood, as in his day many of the priests were not Levites and some even Edomites as Herod was and bought their way into the priesthood.

Luk 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then the kingdom of Yahweh is being preached, and everyone is pressing into it.

This did not mean that the Torah was no longer binding after John the Baptist, but merely that he was the last Old Covenant prophet and from then on the priesthood would be changed in the New Covenant to Melchizedec priesthood in which Yahshua is High Priest from.

That is why Yahshua had to be baptized from John for the sake of judicial order and the official orderly changing over of the priesthood from Levi to Melchizedec.

In the original plan of our Heavenly Father, He had planned that each family head would be a priest to his own family. We also see that in ancient Israel that there was a promise of Kingship to King David for his descendant to be a King forever on the throne of David.

Due to man’s sins the Father separated the Kingship from the priesthood, but originally this was not His intent and we see in the millennial Kingdom that the ones who will be ruling with King Messiah will be both Kings and Priests.

Rev 5:10 and made us kings and priests to our Elohim; and we shall reign over the earth.

This is an important fact to remember, that King Messiah of Israel will be both King and priest but not as a Levite, but under the Higher order of Melchizedec.

Heb 7:1 For this “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High Elohim,” the one meeting Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, “and blessing him;”

Heb 7:2 to whom also Abraham “divided a tenth from all” (first being interpreted, king of righteousness; and then also king of Salem, which is, king of peace,(Gen 14:17-20)

Heb 7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, nor beginning of days, nor having end of life, but having been made like the Son of Yahweh, He remains a priest in perpetuity forever).

Zec 6:12 And speak to him, saying, So says Yahweh of Hosts, saying, Behold! The Man whose name is THE BRANCH! (The Messiah) And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Yahweh.

Zec 6:13 Even He shall build the temple of Yahweh; and He shall bear the majesty, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between the two of them. * (King & Priest)*

In the city of David it was built on a hill called the Akra. It was on this Akra hill that Solomon had his palace. To the north of this hill was another hill called the Ophel in which the temple or sanctuary of Yahweh was built. In between these two hills was a small valley that was called the Millo, which in Hebrew means “fill in.” King Solomon filled in the Millo and made the Akra and the Ophel connected together into one mountain range.

1st Ki 9:24 But the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house that he built for her; then he built Millo.

This is the meaning of Psalm 122:3; that Jerusalem is a city joined to itself or built together.

Psa 122:3 Jerusalem is built like a city that is joined to itself, together.

This is a-typical of the Messiah of Israel. Yahweh created man to be both King and priest, but when man sinned he fell from grace. Now Solomon who was typified as the Messiah compacted the two hills of Akra, representing the House of David the King, and the Ophel, on which the temple or sanctuary was built, which represented the priesthood.

By compacting the Millo and building it up together as one ridge, it typified the Messiah uniting both Kingship and priesthood into one office at His return. Not only will the Messiah unite both the Kingship and priesthood but as Zechariah 6 mentioned He will rebuild the Temple and the Tabernacle of David that has fallen.

Amo 9:11 In that day I will raise up the Tabernacle of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;

Even though the nation of Israel failed at keeping the covenant relationship with Yahweh that was made at Mount Sinai, in His mercy and love toward Israel and King David, Yahweh promised that the nation of Israel and the House of David would return to their land, and He would make a new covenant with them and their sins that were committed under the first covenant would be paid for by the Messiah of Israel.

Jer 31:1 At that time, says Yahweh, I will be the Elohim of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.

Jer 31:2 So says Yahweh, Israel, the people, the survivors of the sword, have found grace in the wilderness, I will go to give rest to him.

Jer 31:3 Yahweh has appeared to me from far away, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love! On account of this, with loving kindness I have drawn you.

Jer 31:4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built again, O virgin of Israel. You will again put on your tambourines and go forth in the dance of those making merry.

Jer 31:5 You shall yet plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, the planters shall plant and shall treat them as common.

Jer 31:7 For so says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the head of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, O Yahweh, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.

Jer 31:8 Behold! I will bring them from the North Country, and gather them from the recesses of the earth. Among them the blind, and the lame, the pregnant one, and the travailing one together, a great company shall return here.

Jer 31:10 Hear the Word of Yahweh, O nations, and declare in the coastlands far away, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd his flock.

Jer 31:11 For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of the one stronger than him.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Jer 31:32 not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt (which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh).

Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, declares Yahweh, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

Jer 31:34 And they shall no longer each man teach his neighbour, and each man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh. For they shall all know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest of them, declares Yahweh; For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.

Yahweh the Creator of the universe promised in His word that even though the nation of Israel was unfaithful in their part of the covenant that He made with them, that He would continue to be faithful and to show mercy to them and still bring them back to their land and He would even send His right hand man, His Messenger of the covenant, to pay the penalty of the sins committed under the first covenant that could not be forgiven by the Torah.

Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Acts 13:39 And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

2nd Tim 2:13 if we are unfaithful, that One remains faithful; He is not able to be unfaithful to Himself

This was the reason that the Messiah of Israel had to come. To pay the penalty of the sins committed under the first covenant that could not be justified by the Torah.

Because of the great love that Yahweh had for His chosen seed Israel He was going to be their Redeemer. He was not going to cast away Israel and make a new covenant with gentiles or with the church.

Rom 11:1-2a I say then, Hath Yahweh cast away His people? Yahweh forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Yahweh hath not cast away His people which He foreknew.

No, Yahweh did not cast away the seed of Israel, instead He sent the Messiah of Israel to pay the penalty for breaking the first covenant. This is the reason that Israel needed a Messiah. Let us now prove without a shadow of a doubt from the Holy Scriptures who that Messiah was.