Our Yeshua (Immanuel)

I never heard about this theory before, until I saw a video of 119 Ministries, and later on a video of Passion for Truth Ministries.

To sum it up briefly: It is about the lost sheep of Israel, where Yeshua [Jesus] specifically came for.

Mathew 15:24
And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.”

The theory states that this ‘lost sheep of the house of Israel’ is the former northern kingdom named “Israel”, who were – according to 2 Kings 18:9-12, Hosea 1:6-9 and Jeremiah 3:8 – driven out of their land with a certificate of divorce by ADONAI¹ יהוה. And by doing so, they became “Lo-Ammi [not My people]”. In Deuteronomy 30 ADONAI יהוה promised the children of Israel (that is, all the tribes of Israel) that he would gather them from the four winds of the earth – to where they have been scattered – and bring them back to the Promised Land. That is, if they turn their hearts from wicked ways back to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which is also their God. From Deuteronomy 28 we read that our God, through Moses, told everyone who was present that day – that is: the children of Israel; the people that came with the Israelites out of Egypt and the offspring of both of them – that to them the blessings and the curse were presented. In Deuteronomy 31 we read that our God told Moses that everyone will break the covenant and follow other gods. In Ezekiel 37:15-28 our God explains through his prophet Ezekiel what He’s about to do, and we see that our God’s ‘goal’ is to bring Ephraim and Judah back together again. They both will be gathered by our God from the four winds of the earth and being brought back to the land Israel, the Promised Land. “Ephraim” (actually: Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim) is the name God gives to the Northern kingdom named “Israel” and “Judah” is the name God gives to the southern kingdom named “Judea”.

^{1. Great Lord, Lord most high}

This theory goes on by stating that our God can’t make His promise without breaking His own rule. That is the rule, listed in Deuteronomy 24:

Deuteronomy 24:1-4
When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, and if she left his house and went and became another man’s wife, and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an abomination before יהוה. And do not bring sin on the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

A woman isn’t defiled because her husband has died. The woman is declared ‘defiled’ because she had done something detestable. The fact is that her first husband had send her away with a certificate of divorce. Whatever happens to the woman, her first husband – ex-husband that is – isn’t allowed to take her back as his wife.

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Our God is a Righteous God, and not a person who loves to put several rules and laws to others without keeping them Himself. Those are qualities of a tyrant and not of a righteous person, and certainly not a Righteous God. So, the big question is:

“How on earth will ADONAI יהוה, our God, keep His promise, without breaking His own rule?”

This is indeed a mystery [sod סוד = secret/hidden] when you read the quoted passages. An explanation could be that the previous northern kingdom Israel, indicated with “Ephraim”, had it coming that they were outcasted for good. There were a few people who went from the northern kingdom to the southern kingdom Judea, and maybe they were the people our God meant with “Ephraim”. Although, when we read Ezekiel 37 again, we see that in verse 16 our God told his prophet Ezekiel to prophesize as follows: “For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.” These Israelites, Juda’s companions, are those Israelites who moved to the south. And the end of this verse shows that our God told His prophet Ezekiel to prophesize: “For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.” Jacob adopted the two sons of his son Joseph and placed Ephraim, who was the youngest, above Manasseh. Ephraim was one of the tribes of the former northern kingdom Israel. The king of this kingdom came from the tribe Ephraim. With “all of the house of Israel” this kingdom is mentioned. And so, we have to ask ourselves as well the big question.

The TaNaKH² gives us the answer.
Before we quote some passages from the TaNaKH, let’s have some items in mind:

1. The priests, who were named hamashiach [the messiah = the anointed one], are the ones that took the iniquities of the people on themselves. (Leviticus 4:3,5,16; 6:22 [15]; Exodus28:36-38; Leviticus 6:25-26 [18-19]; 10:16-17)
2. Kings and prophets, who are anointed to their service, can also be named hamashiach. However, we will not find this in the TaNaKH.
3. A man/woman of the children of Israel isn’t allowed to perform atonement for him-/herself before the present of ADONAI יהוה, unless he is a priest. Chastisement and putting your soul to death and being erased from the Book of Life for this purpose isn’t permitted.

^{2. Torah [Instruction; Teaching] Nevi’im [Prophets] K(KH)etuvim [Writings]}

Let’s bring up a book from the TaNaKH and let’s take a look at a chapter that brings up lots of uncertainties: Isaiah 53.

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Our God mentioned His servant a couple of chapters before in this book Isaiah. He named him “Israel” (Isaiah 49:3). A logical conclusion is that this Israel is the “he” and “him” from chapter 53, and that would be the children of Israel – all tribes – that would metaphorically undergo the plagues written in chapter 53. Israel will undergo these plagues for themselves, of which stands these “we” and “us” in chapter 53. Then ADONAI will rescue this people out of their misery, and they will be His people again. ADONAI will give them a lot, like said in verse 12 of chapter 53.

As said before, a logical thought. However, we have to bring up in memory item no. 3: A man/woman of the children of Israel isn’t allowed to perform atonement for him-/herself before the present of ADONAI יהוה, unless he is a priest. Chastisement and putting your soul to death and being erased from the Book of Life for this purpose isn’t permitted. Because, what do we read in the verses 5 and 8?

Isaiah 53:5
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment. And as for His generation, who considered that He shall be cut off from the land of the living? For the transgression of My people He was stricken.

And also, item no. 1 we have to bring up in memory: The priests, who were named hamashiach [the messiah = the anointed one], are the ones that took the iniquities of the people on themselves. (Leviticus 4:3,5,16; 6:22 [15]; Exodus28:36-38; Leviticus 6:25-26 [18-19]; 10:16-17). Because, what do we read in verse 6?

Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And יהוה has laid on Him the crookedness of us all.

Only the priests, the anointed ones [hamashiach] were able to bare the crookedness of the people. Therefore, we can cross out the theory that this “he” and “him” are the children of Israel. Our God would have spoken against Himself with this metaphor otherwise; He would have been against His own rule.

In Psalms 22 the sufferings of a man are being told. The sufferings of a man who undergoes the plagues, mentioned in Isaiah 53. The Psalm is of David, and one could think David metaphorically sang his own sufferings. Indeed, David has been through enough before he was anointed as king by the people as well. However, not this much that he would sing about his hands and feet being pierced through (verse 16); that his sufferings would be as if God put him in the dust of death (verse 15); that it all would be this much, that he could count his own bones (verse 17); that people would divide his garments and for his raiment they would cast lots (verse 18). From the books that is about the life of David, we see that David was victorious and that he truly was anointed to be a king by ADONAI.

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The prophet Ezekiel tells us in 17:22-24 about a top of a cedar that would be taken by our God and that He would set it out. Then our God shall pluck off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs and would plant it on a high and lofty mountain. This mountain would be in Israel and it would become a big cedar.

If we read Ezekiel 17 from the beginning, we will find out that with top of the cedar the kingdom is mentioned. The verses 22 till 24 is about the house of David, from which a descendant will be anointed to be king by our God Himself.

Funny though, because the family line is from David, then Solomon and eventually Yeshua/Jesus, isn’t it?
Actually, it isn’t. The kingdom by this family line has ended by Coniah/Jeconiah/Jehoiachin. We can read this in Jeremiah 22:22-30. We could say that this “curse” has reversed, by reading Haggai 2:23[24]. A man named Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, will be made like signet by our God. The same signet that would be taken from the Hand of our God, if Coniah were one [Jeremiah 22:24].

Reading Matthew 1:12, we’ll see that a certain Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, is a grandson of Coniah/Jeconiah. So, it seems to be that God has indeed reversed His curse over this family line. However, when we read Luke 3:27, we will meet a certain Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, who is a grandson of Neri. The man named Zerubbabel, son of Coniah, mentioned in Matthew, is from the family line of Solomon. And the man named Zerubbabel, son of Neri, mentioned in Luke, is from the family line of Nathan. Both Solomon and Nathan are sons of David.

About the family line of David – Solomon, please read the following passages:

• Jeremiah 39:6 and 2 Kings 25:7
• Jeremiah 22:22-30 and 2 Kings 24:6-17.

Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

2 Kings 25:7
Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

Zedekiah was the uncle of Coniah/Jeconiah/Jehoiachin and Zedekiah was, in fact, named Mattaniah. The king of Babylon changed his name into Zedekiah. Mattaniah/Zedekiah was placed to rule over Judea instead of Jehoiachin. His sons couldn’t rule over Judea in his place, because they were killed and he himself was made blind and was held in Babylon’s prison.

We can read about Jehoiachin in 2 Kings 24:6-17. In Jeremiah 22, from verse 24, we read that a certain Coniah will be removed from being the king of Judea and that he will be taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. We read that Coniah will be taken to Babylon with his mother and that they won’t return. And in verse 30 we read the following:

Jeremiah 22:30
Thus says the LORD:
‘Write this man down as childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”

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God’s promise to king David, that his zera [offspring] will be king forever, shall not be from the line of Salomon. This offspring will be, metaphorically, a twig from the top of a cedar, according to the prophesy of the prophet Ezekiel. And this twig from the top of a cedar will be planted on a high and exalted mountain in Israel. Also, the prophet Isaiah prophesies about a twig. He prophesies that this twig will sprout up from the tree trunk of Isai [Jesse].

Isaiah 11:1
There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

By the book of Daniel, we know that the Judeans returned to their homeland, after being 70 years in exile. Once returned in Judea, they build the Temple we know today as “The Second Temple”. However, Judea never was a kingdom again. Always a province of several empires:

• Babylonia (Babylon)
• Medes and Persia
• Roman Empire
• Ottoman Empire
• League of Nations
• United Nations
• The State of Israel

This is, more or less, foretold by Jakob/Israel:

Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes;
And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

We know from our history that the Jews returned to Israel. However, not all the Jews over the entire world returned to the land of our forefathers. And, added to this, the land Israel is a state and not a kingdom. So, we can say that the prophesies about the Jews didn’t fulfill completely. And so far, I’ve only mentioned “the Jews”, aka the Judeans [they that are from the tribe Judah]. How about Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim (Ezekiel 37:16)? They were sent away by our God, with a certificate of divorce and our God demanded Himself that the first husband of a woman isn’t allowed to take her back as his wife once she has been send away with a certificate of divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1-4). The prophet Ezekiel must have known this.

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Summed up:

• We have the promise of ADONAI יהוה, our God. (Deuteronomy 30, read from chapter 28.)
• To David is promised that his offspring will be king forever. However, the offspring of Salomon are cut off from being kings (Jeremiah 22:30). And according the prophesies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, David himself will be king (Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 37:24).
• The future king will rule over all the tribes of Israel, and not over just 1 single tribe. Both Juda and his companions Israel and Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim and his companions will live in the future kingdom and sever both our God and the king (Ezekiel 37:15-28; 34:23; Jeremiah 30:9).
• The former northern kingdom Israel (formed by the 10 tribes) was taken from their land first by the Assyrians. Although a group stayed behind, we can state that these tribes never returned. They are the ones prophetically named: “Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim and of the entire house of Israel, his companions” … they that were send away with a certificate of divorce by our God.
• The former southern kingdom Judea (formed by the 2 tribes) was taken later from their land by the Babylonians. After 70 years of living in exile, they returned to their land. They are the ones prophetically named: “Judah and for the Israelites, his companions”. About Judah is foretold that the scepter won’t leave him, until Shiloh comes (Genesis 49:10).
• Judea is a province of the State of Israel, and has been a province of 6 empires, of which 2 was a league/institution of which diverse countries are a member.
• Judea and Ephraim aren’t reunited to be one kingdom until this day.

When all the tribes of Israel were led out of Egypt by our God, our forefathers said to our God to do everything He commanded them to do. They said that at the foot of the mountain via Moses. To mentioned this differently: They entered into a covenant with our God. This covenant goes from parents to children, generations long, till eternity. This means that we too entered into a covenant with our God. One could say that we entered into a covenant with the Word of our God, because we cannot see our God and survive the same time. (Exodus 12; 19; 24; Deuteronomy 29.)

Unfortunate, we went astray from our promises and, therefore, we have broken the covenant we took with our God. For this we were sent away, out of the Promised Land, and being spread over the entire world. Juda and his companions were allowed to return, but Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim with his companions, never returned. And they are “the lost sheep of the house of Israel”, spoken of by Yeshua (Jesus) in Matthew 15:24.

When you read the book Isaiah completely, you will see that it is about the two kingdoms, who both sinned. Both are being punished by sending away, and to both is promised that they will be gathered from the four winds of the earth and being brought back. Also, the books Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Hosea are about this subject. And in chapter 53 of the book Isaiah it specifies how a servant of our God will take upon him the iniquities of Israel upon him, that will even lead him into death, and David sang about this suffering in Psalms 22, as if he went through it by himself.

This suffering is similar with the he-goat, meant for Azazel³, who’ll took the iniquities of the people of Israel upon him, to an uninhabited area (wilderness). This happened on the 10^th day of the Hebrew 7^th month. According the Gregorian calendar it is starts mid-September and ends mid-October. This day was named Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16).

^{3. In the New King James Version, it is translated into ‘live goat’ and ‘scapegoat’. There is a disagreement about who/what Azazel actually is. The scapegoat is meant for removing the sins of the people, by sending it away from among them.}

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About Yeshua is testified that he is the Word of our God, the Word which became ‘flesh’. He was recognized as HaMashiach (the anointed one), who “ took away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
Yeshua said that he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. However, we have to realize that these lost sheep are being spread out over the entire world, and, added to it, it is prophesied about God’s “suffering servant” that he would also be sent to be a light to the Gentiles; that he would be God’s salvation (yeshua) to the ends of the earth (Isaiah 49:6).

Now that God’s Word, which became flesh, was “cut off from the land of the living” (Isaiah 53:8), and that his body was laid in a rich mans grave (Isaiah 53:9), the joke of living under the law of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 of the adulterus woman [Ephrayim] removed from her. Her first husband ‘died’ and her impurity moved from her, because this man has taken her impurity to an ‘inhabited area’. However, she still can’t go back to ADONAI יהוה, our God. Not until the Word of ADONAI יהוה, our God, is brought back to the land of the living, it will be possible for her to return to our God, who was her God before – her first husband. But, only through this servant, HaMashiach HaCohen [The Anointed Priest. Psalms 110]. He who was named by our God “Israel”, which means: Wrestled with God and men (people) and have overcome it.
A strange story? I understand!

So … the statement of this theory is that God let His own son to suffer and die, in order to take His first wife back, once God has made His son back to life again?

Our God named Israel “His son” first. He said that through Moses to Egypt’s Pharaoh. With “Israel” the children/offspring of Israel (Jacob) is meant: the people of Israel. Yeshua belonged to the people of Israel. Let us also keep in mind that our God made His Word flesh, in order to set His Tent among us. (Isaiah 7:14; John 1:14). We, also, are able to transform our words for others to see and to communicate with us. Think about books, video’s, audio recordings, pictures, paintings, etc. And, doing so, it still is us who is communicating, although not present in flesh. Even if we let our words be spoken out loud by somebody else, it still is us who does the communicating! But what we aren’t able to do, is to make our words alive like our God can and has done.

Yeshua is the Word of ADONAI יהוה, our God, made flesh. This is the reason why Yeshua was named “son of man” and why he was recognized as “son of God”. He was set in the house of David, by being born from an Almah [young unmarried woman, always a virgin], who is from the line from David’s son Nathan (Luke 3:23-38).

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Why does it read Joseph, son of Heli, when this is the birth register of Miryam (Mary)? Before “Joseph, son of Heli” it reads in NKJV “... being (as was supposed) the son of …”. The Greek word is νομίζω nomizó [G3543]. It is a Greek verb, which derives from the Greek word nómos which it means “law”. Nomizó is often translated into “as was supposed”, but it actually means: according the customs, or, according the law. In those days it was a custom that the family line was recorded by father to son. Never from mother to son, or, mother to daughter. Joseph was married to Miryam … she who gave birth to Yeshua. Because of this marriage, Miryam was taken into the house of Joseph, and Joseph became a coheir of Miryam’s heritage. And also, according to the law Joseph became the father of Yeshua. The Greek word “huios” means “son (by birth or by adoption); descended”. The Hebrew word “ben בן” and the Aramaic word “bar בר” both means “(adoptive)son; grandson; son-in-law; stepson; student; follower”. The fact that Joseph named Yeshua his “huios/ben/bar”, isn’t unusual within Judaism. We can find this in the Mishna Bava Batra 8:6 and in the Bava Batra 134a:

If a man said, “This is my son”, he is believed.

Reading this Mishna, we see that it is about heritage and that a heritage can also be given to the daughters. This is in the Bible in Numbers 27:1-12. To the daughters of Zelophead were demanded that they should marry only men from their own tribe, or else the division of inheritance would’ve gone bad. And this applied to every woman who received the inheritance from her father, because her father doesn’t have sons to give the inheritance to (Numbers 36:1-11).

Interesting is, that the Aramaic word for “son (of)” is bar בר and in Hebrew it is ben בן, but it also means: “son-in-law; stepson; a servant; a student; a follower”. A student names his rabbi “father”.

This young woman [Miryam/Mary] became the wife of a man called Joseph, who’s family line was from David’s son Solomon (Matthew 1:1-16). Although the offspring of Solomon was cut off from the throne, still our God could keep His promise to David, According to the prophecy of Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 17:22-24). Because, Bava Batra 134a and Mishna Bava Batra 8:6 explains that when a man says: “This is my son”, he shall be believed. And, added to this, adoption isn’t a rare thing in the Bible.

• This “Yeshua” is HaMashiach HaCohen [The Anointed Priest], according to Psalms 110:4 and Zechariah 6:12-13.
• This “Yeshua” will be HaMashiach HaMelech [The Anointed King], according to Psalms 110:4 and Zechariah 6 (and has been anointed to be king by our God).
• This “Yeshua” turned out to be a true HaMashiach HaNavi [The Anointed Prophet].

For those who mainly disagrees with last statement, please realize that the prophecies of, among others, the prophet Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel also didn’t come true to the fullest.

The writer of this article mentioned “Azazel”. This was during Yom Kippur. Why, then, was Yeshua being ‘slaughtered’ during Pesach?

We know that Pesach [Pascha] is a memorial of what happened during our stay in Egypt. We had to slaughter a one-year old male lamb, which could be from a sheep or from a goat (Exodus 12:5). The lamb should be without blemish and we ought to keep it in our houses from day 10 of the 1^st month, until day 14 of this month. Then, when evening begun, we were ordered to slaughter the lamb and to paint our doorposts and lintels from the houses we’d eat the Pesach at midnight, with the blood.

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By doing so, we’d left a mark, a sign, so that death would not come upon us, and would pass by our houses (pasachti = to pass by; to skip). Our God would pass by that same night, to hit every firstborn of Egypt, men and beast. By this mark, God’s plague upon Egypt would not hit us.

The TaNaKH does not only mention about the re-gathering of the house of Israel. It also mentions – warns – about the judgement of our God that will go around the entire world. Then too, His people will be spared, when they carry the mark that is. According to the spirit, we will have to take the blood of God's Lamb and paint the doorposts and lintels of our hearts. This will be the mark, mentioned earlier.
And, what do you think about the Menorah!

The Menorah is a lampstand, on which are 6 arms. In total it has 7 holders, on which can be put in the oil or candles, intended to light them. The first arm and the seventh arm are intertwined.

The following could be the reason why you think this theory is a false theory and, therefore, in error:

• The only HaMashiach that comes, is from David. No suffering Messiah, nor from the tribe Ephraim that would come according to the rabbis.
• The Jews are the only ones that can be revered to as Israel, God’s people.
• Certainly, Yeshua is HaMashiach. But, just a man like you and me and nothing more than that. However, in him was our God present for the full 100%.

The first two statements I have covered in this article. Our God is a God who keeps His promises. Our God is a Righteous God and All-known and All-seeing. When our God told us via Moses what we’re about to do and what He would do, our God must have known that not only the 2 tribes of His people would do, but also what the other 10 tribes of His people would do, and how our God would react to that. We can read this in Deuteronomy 31.

In the English language, “to be Jewish” means that you practice Judaism, but also that you belong tot the tribe Judea. When you’ve converted to Judaism, you also become a member of the tribe Judea; your being adopted.

In Hebrew, Judaism is “Yahadut”, which means: “The faith of the Yehudim [Judeans/Jews]”. If this kind of adoption is also known in Islam, I don’t know. Within Christianity, I know it isn’t so. When, for example, an offspring of the tribe Judea (a Jew) converts to Christianity, it means he has stopped practicing Judaism but still is a Jew, because he still is an offspring of the tribe Judea.

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Within Christianity one doesn’t enter a tribe but converts to another religion. I have to say, however, that someone of the tribe Judea, who has always practiced Judaism will remain practicing Judaism. Even when he recognizes the person Yehoshua/Yeshua as the Messiah and follows him. He is a Jew who practice Judaism. He – most of the time – doesn’t take Christianity to his religion, nor does he enter another nation/tribe.

I can understand that Yeshua is recognized as a human like you and me are. I too do not believe in a 3-persons God, of which the 1^st is named “Father”, the 2^nd is named “Son” and the 3^rd is named “Holy Ghost”. The TaNaKH speaks about the seven spirits of God, and not about three spirits of God (Isaiah 11:2).

Yet, I can’t say that Yeshua is a man like you and me. You and I, we came forth out a man (father) and a woman (mother). Yeshua came forth by Force of the Most High, planted in a young woman’s womb. This is predicted in Genesis 3:14-15.

When a human being, like you and me, receive the force/strength of our God for the full 100%, it would mean that we have our God Himself for the full 100% inside of us, and that can’t be so! No human being can see God and survive at the same time, let alone having the Most High inside of us for the full 100%. Everyone of us exist for the full 100%, and that is including your strength. When you state that you’re not feeling for the full 100%, you want to say that you aren’t feeling well or complete … not to your full strength. To our God this isn’t any different, although He does not have the issues like a loosen of strength or other kind. To have our God inside you for the full 100%, is having our God inside you Himself.

And I can think of another reason you may find this theory nonsense, false and untrue. Namely, what is written in Romans 10:14 until 11:12.
After reading these passages, I thought: “Ok, there goes the 2-houses theory!” But, reading it again and with attention, I noticed it is about something else then I thought reading it the first time.

Paul [Sha’ul] wants to make clear in Romans 10 that to the children of Israel, Adonai יהוה has been revealed via Moses [Moshe]. Our God has spread His hands towards us, the Israelites, but we found it more important to follow our own ways and thoughts then to trust and obey our God unconditionally. The Good News, which is pronounced to us, we did not accept. The prophecies are witnessing that this was about to happen.
A people, which aren’t in fact a nation, a foolish nation, will be used to make Israel jealous and wroth. They, that did not ask about יהוה; by them He let Himself be found and to them He has revealed Himself.

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In the cited chapter 11 it becomes clear that Paul didn’t meant that our God has abandoned us, the Israelites. Paul said that he himself is an Israelite, from the tribe Benjamin. With this, he wants to say that he has chosen to accept the Good News, and no longer follow his own ways and thoughts, but to trust and obey יהוה unconditionally.

Paul cites a history, which is of Elijah the prophet. Elijah said to our God that the house of Israel – which is the former northern kingdom – has killed all of God’s prophets, broken His altars and are willing to end Elijah’s life too. To our God Elijah said that he alone is the one that didn’t deny our God.

Our God answers Elijah that He has 7000 men for Himself that didn’t bend the knees to idols. Or, with other words, 7000 didn’t denied our God.
Paul says that this is also the case now [in his time period]. Not everyone of the children of Israel – which is, the tribe – has followed only his own ways and thoughts, and not everyone of the children of Israel will keep on following his own teachings or that of humans

Paul said that peoples that stubbornly keep on following their own teaching/teachings of men, that they receive a spirit of deep sleep from our God. They don’t understand the prophecies. And by the revelation of our God to the goyim [nations], we [the stubborn ones] must be awakened of our deep sleep roughly, by jealousy. This caused that to the goyim is given mercy: In stead of being destroyed, them is given the opportunity of being saved. That is, when they accept it. And if by this – that is, by the trip and fall of this spiritual sleeping Israel – means riches for the goyim, what more will their awakening and fullness be.

In first, I read that these 7000 are from the house of Israel – the former northern kingdom – that could return through Yeshua to our God, and that there isn’t a “divorce” in this case. But that isn’t what is meant. These 7000 lived in this kingdom of Israel, but they aren’t counted with the ones who were addressed to as “ lo-Ammi [not my people]”.

Yeshua has given his life for everyone. Not just for those lost sheep. His blood is being used in spirit to make atonement over us, by himself being the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. However, it was important to those lost sheep that he did gave his life. Namely, for the reason I have given in this article.

I hope this article was a bit useful to you. My prayer to you is for you to have love, wisdom, strength and energy during your study.

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