Why Did Yahoshua ha Mashiach Have to Die? by Robert McDuffie

WHY DID YAHOSHUA HA MASHIACH (THE MESSIAH OF YISRAEL) HAVE TO DIE? (All Scriptures Are Taken From The Scriptures Translation Of The Bible Or The KJV. Faithfully Translated From The Received Text Or Textus Receptus.) This will probably be one of the most profoundly simple and simply profound Scripture Studies I have ever written. Sadly, almost 2,000 years after Yahoshua came to die, was buried in a tomb and rose from the dead, over 99% of the body of Messiah, commonly called “Christians”, do not really understand why He had to die! Now I know that most of those who are reading this are confounded altogether because they honestly think they know the correct answer(s). I would agree they know a correct answer, but not the most correct and “Scripturally” accurate answer. First we need to establish some ground rules for our study. 1) Do you believe that Yahweh Elohim is always the same and that He never changes? Malachai 3:6 “For I am ‫יהוה‬, I shall not change, and you, O sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, shall not come to an end.” Ibrim / Hebrews 13:8 “‫ יהושע‬Messiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Mismore / Psalm 89:34 “I shall not profane My covenant, Neither would I change what has gone out from My lips.” Mismore 102:27 “But You are the same, And Your years have no end.” Mismore 111:9 “He sent redemption to His people, He has commanded His covenant forever. Set-apart and awesome is His Name.” Do you believe that only “The Scriptures” can interpret “The Scriptures” correctly and that it is not subject to man’s opinions, translations and interpretations of it? 2Kepha / Peter 1:19 “And we have the prophetic word made more certain, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, v.20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture came to be of one’s own interpretation, v.21 for prophecy never came by the desire of man, but men of Elohim spoke, being moved by the Set-apart Spirit.” In Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3 we find the foundation for our study. In Yirmeyahu 3:1 - Elohim said, “If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, does he return to her again? Would not that land be made greatly unclean? But you have 1

committed whoring with many lovers. And would you return to Me?” declares ‫יהוה‬. V.2 “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Araḇian in the wilderness. And you made the land unclean with your whorings and your evil. V.3 “Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed. V.4 “Shall you not from now on cry to Me, ‘My father, You are the guide of my youth? V.5 ‘Does one bear a grudge forever? Does one keep it to the end?’ See, you have spoken and done the evils that you could.” V.6 And ‫ יהוה‬said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Yisra’ĕl has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there committed whoring. V.7 “And after she had done all these, I said ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Yahuḏah saw it. V.8 “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ĕl had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yahuḏah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too. V.9 “And it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood. V.10 “And yet for all this her treacherous sister Yehuḏah has not turned to Me with all her heart, but falsely,” declares ‫יהוה‬.” From these “Scriptures” we can plainly see that Yahweh divorced Yisrael never to be able to return to her husband Yahweh Elohim for as long as they both shall live. This is directly from the Torah (The Instructions) Yahweh gave to Mosheh. Debarim / Deuteronmoy 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, v.2 and if she left his house and went and became another man’s wife, v.3 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, v.4 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 ‫ יהוה‬your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.” Also, bothYisrael and Yahudah were guilty of adultery / idolatry. From the Torah of Mosheh we know that the penalty for idolatry / adultery is death. Wayyiqra / Leviticus 20:10 “‘And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour: the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.” Let’s review! From the Torah of Mosheh and from the prophet Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah we see that both Yisrael and Yahudah are guilty of adultery / idolatry which is punishable by death. Yisrael has been forever divorced by Yahweh and according to the Torah, (The Instructions), of marriage and divorce is not able to return to Yahweh as long as they both shall live. Now we will turn our attention to Brit ha Dashah (the NT) Scripture commentary written by Shaul (the apostle Paul) as recorded in his letter to the Romans chapters 6 & 7.

Romans 6:2-11 “Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (Footnote: See Rom. 8:13, Col. 3:3, 1 Peter 2:24. V.3) Or do you not know that as many of us as were immersed into Messiah ‫ יהושע‬were immersed into His death? V.4 We were therefore buried with Him through immersion into death, that as Messiah was raised from the dead by the esteem of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. V.5 For if we have come to be grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also of the resurrection, v.6 knowing this, that our old man was impaled with Him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, to serve sin no longer. V.7 For he who has died has been made right from sin. V.8 And if we died with Messiah, we believe that we shall also live with Him, v.9 knowing that Messiah, having been raised from the dead, dies no more – death no longer rules over Him. V.10 For in that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to Elohim. V.11 So you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Elohim in Messiah ‫ יהושע‬our Master.” This is one of the two primary reasons why Yahoshua had to die! Both Yahudah and Yisrael were guilty of adultery / idolatry, punishable by death. (Romans 6:23a) In Yahoshua Ha MaShiach Yahudah and Yisrael both died on the cross and were buried, thus fulfilling Torah! He alone is the vicarious, substitutionary, propitiation and atoning sacrifice for both Yahudah and Yisrael! Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the favourable gift of Elohim is everlasting life in Messiah ‫ יהושע‬our Master”. The other primary reason Yahoshua had to die is found in Romans 7. Romans 7:1-3 “Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives? V.2 For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband. V.3 So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.” Most ministers of “The Scriptures” and hence most “Christians” completely miss the point that the author is only speaking to those who know “The Torah.” Most “Christians” do not even read the torah, much less know it with any real depth of understanding and thus are not qualified to understand, much less preach from these “Scriptures”. Yahoshua had to die so He could take Yisrael, whom He had previously divorced, as His bride under the re-NEW-ed covenant by His own blood! We (Yahweh Yahoshua Elohim and Yisrael, were all under the law (Torah, the instructions) of marriage. As long as our bridegroom was living He could not take us (Yisrael) back as His bride. However, by His death we were all set free from the Torah of marriage and divorce. Thus we were no longer under the law of marriage and divorce! All parties, Yahoshua and Yisrael, were free to marry whomever they will and it would not / cannot be sin by the transgression of “The Torah” of marriage! Hallelu-Yah! Romans 7:4 “So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah (of marriage) through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s (betrothed wife), the One who was raised 3

from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.” Now forever and a day most of the “church” has been led to believe two abominable and unScriptural doctrines. The first is that the covenant was for Yisrael in the “Old Testament” and for the “church” in the “New Testament”. This is a blasphemy of ‘The Scriptures” to the highest degree. You cannot show one “Scripture” anywhere in your “Bible” that there ever was or is a Heavenly covenant established with any gentile nation(s) or with “the church”. If you will search it out in your concordance you will find “the church” is found more often in the Old Covenant Scriptures than the re-new-ed ones. (Strong’s H122 ‫קהל‬, qâhâl, kaw-hwl as compared to Stong’s G116 ἐκκλησία, ekklēsia, ek-klay-see'-ah, respectfuly.) The second blasphemous doctrine goes hand and hand with the first. It is the belief that Yahweh has forever done away with both Yahudah and Yisrael. Nothing could be farther from the Truth! Just look to “The Scriptures”! Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 31:31-37 “See, the days are coming,” declares ‫יהוה‬, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yahuḏah, (Footnote: See Ibrim / Hebrews 8:8-12, Ibrim / Hebrews 10:16-17. V.32) not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares ‫יהוה‬. V.33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares ‫יהוה‬: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. V.34 “And no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know ‫יהוה‬,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares ‫יהוה‬. “For I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.” V.35 Thus said ‫יהוה‬, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar – ‫ יהוה‬of hosts is His Name: v.36 “If these laws vanish from before Me,” declares ‫יהוה‬, “then the seed of Yisra’ĕl shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” V.37 Thus said ‫יהוה‬, “If the heavens above could be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I would also cast off all the seed of Yisra’ĕl for all that they have done,” declares ‫יהוה‬.” Ibrim / Hebrews 8:8-13 “For finding fault with them, He says, “See, the days are coming,” says ‫יהוה‬, “when I shall conclude with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yahuḏah a renewed covenant, v.9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,” says ‫יהוה‬. V.10 “Because this is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, says ‫יהוה‬, giving My laws in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. V.11 “And they shall by no means teach each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know ‫יהוה‬,’ because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. V.12 “Because I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall no longer remember.” V.13 By saying, ‘renewed,’ He has made the first old. Now what becomes old and growing aged is near disappearing.” From both the Tanank (OT) and Brit ha Dashah (NT) we can plainly see that the re-NEW-ed 4

covenant is only for Yisrael by favor through faith and Yahudah by favor through faith! Now what is it exactly that was done away with? Was it the perfect covenant (Mismore / Psalm 19:7) and set-apart covenant (The Instructions) that will never pass away (Mattithayahu / Matthew 24:35) or was it the inferior Levitical Priesthood? If you look carefully at your Authorized King James manuscript you will notice that the word covenant in Ibrim / Hebrews 8:7 is italicized, meaning that this word is not found in any of the manuscripts they translated from. From Ibrim / Hebrews 5 forward the author has been comparing the inferior Levitical Priesthood to the Superior Malek – Zedek (Melchizedek) priesthood. Now in Ibrim 8:8 the author states He found fault with them (the priesthood), not it (the old covenant scriptures). The same is true of Ibrim 9:1. Again, the word covenant is italicized and is not found in any of the manuscripts the various Bible have been translated from. By careful examination you can readily see it was the Levitical Priesthood that was given the divine ordinances of The Tabernacle service and thus it should have been rendered priesthood not covenant! Hallelu-Yah! Obviously, this correct and Scriptural understanding has profound implications on everything we previously believed to be true. Several questions must be answered immediately. The first question quite naturally would be, “Am I a part of Yisrael or Yahudah?” The most correct answer is, both! Yisrael of the Old Covenant Scriptures became the gentiles who were scattered to the nations under the re-NEW-ed Covenant Scriptures. In BC 723 the ten tribes of northern Yisrael were scattered by the king of Assyria and they never returned to their inheritance because they were divorced by Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua! This is told to us repeatedly throughout the re-new-ed covenant. 1Kepha / Peter 1:1 “Kĕpha, an emissary of ‫ יהושע‬Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia, v.2 chosen according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of ‫ יהושע‬Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to you.” Yaʽaqoḇ / James 1:1 “Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master ‫ יהושע‬Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings.” Yahweh Elohim told Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah that Yahudah was a green olive tree whose branches would be broken. Jeremiah / Yirmeyahu 11:16 “‫ יהוה‬has named you, ‘Green Olive Tree, Fair, of Goodly Fruit.’ With the noise of a great sound He has set it on fire, and its branches shall be broken.” This is exactly what Shaul / Paul was speaking of in Romans. Romans 11:16-29 “Now if the first-fruit is set-apart, the lump is also. And if the root is set-apart, so are the branches. V.17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, have been grafted in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree, v.18 do not boast against the branches. And if you boast, remember: you do not bear 5

the root, but the root bears you! V.19 You shall say then, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” v.20 Good! By unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by belief. Do not be arrogant, but fear. V.21 For if Elohim did not spare the natural branches, He might not spare you either. V.22 See then the kindness and sharpness of Elohim: on those who fell sharpness, but toward you kindness, if you continue in His kindness, otherwise you also shall be cut off. V.23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for Elohim is able to graft them in again. V.24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? V.25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers, lest you should be wise in your own estimation, that blinding in part has come over Yisra’ĕl (Yahudah – Romans 9:24), until the completeness of the gentiles (Yisrael – Romans 9:25-26) has come in. And so all Yisra’ĕl shall be saved (The Whole House of Yisrael, Yahudah and Yisrael), as it has been written, “The Deliverer shall come out of Tsiyon, and He shall turn away wickedness from Yaʽaqoḇ, v.27 and this is My covenant with them (Yisrael & Yahudah), when I take away their sins.” V.28 Truly, as regards the Good News they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. V.29 For the gifts and the calling of Elohim are not to be repented of.” Please note two very important Truths that most people completely miss when they read Romans 11. 1) Yisrael / the gentiles already were Olive Branches. They were simply Wild Olive Branches because they were not dwelling in the land of inheritance. The tree is always a green olive tree (the whole house of Yisrael) of whom Yahoshua is the root! The entire book of Hoshea is written to dispersed Yisrael. Hear the Word of Yahweh Elohim! Hoshea 14:4-6 “I shall heal their backsliding, I shall love them spontaneously, for My displeasure has turned away from him. v.5 “I shall be like the dew to Yisra’ĕl. He shall blossom like the lily, and cast out his roots like Leḇanon. v.6 “His branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon. 2) Yahudah is blinded in part. “The Scriptures” themselves testify that Yisrael / The Gentiles also are blinded in part until Yahoshua comes. The first testimony comes to us because “The Scriptures” are a two-edged sword (Ibrim / Hebrews 4:12) and it is thus self evident that both Yahudah and Yisrael are both blinded partially. A second witness is found in 1 Corinthians 13:12. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1 Cor. 13:12 By the inspiration of Ruach Ha Chodesh (the Set-apart Spirit) Rav Shaul (the Apostle Paul) was led to reference the three southern tribes of Yahudah as their rightful inheritance Yisrael by their father Ya acob and he was also led to reference Yisrael as the gentiles. This was part of the divine plan all along, to veil the hearts of Yisrael (the gentiles) even as the hearts of the Yahudim (the Jews) had already been veiled. 6

We understand this is 100% true from Hoshea 1:6-10. Hoshea is a type and shadow of Yahoshua Ha MaShiach. He is given the same name as Hoshea son of Nun whom Mosheh changed to Yahoshua. Bemidbar / Numbers 13:16 “These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yahoshua.” Hoshea 1:6-10 “And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruḥamah, for no longer do I have compassion on the house of Yisra’ĕl so as to forgive them at all. V.7 “But I shall have compassion on the house of Yehuḏah and save them by ‫יהוה‬ their Elohim, and not save them by bow or by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.” V.8 And she weaned Lo-Ruḥamah, and conceived and bore a son, V.9 then He said, “Call his name LoAmmi, for you are not My people, and I am not for you. V.10 “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they shall be called, ‘You are the sons of the living Ěl.’” Rav Shaul already explained to everyone reading the letter to the Romans that you cannot understand what he was saying apart from the TaNaKh (OT). (Roman 7:1) Our limited understanding of Torah keeps us from understanding that the entire TaNaKh is the Torah (the instructions) as well as the Brit ha DaShah (New Testament). In most churches today, they have been taught the entire “Holy Bible” is the Torah (the instructions) without even really understanding what we are saying. He Only Left You Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Rav Shaul (Rabbi Paul) quotes from the book of Hoshea directly in Romans 9. Hoshea was primarily a prophet to Yisrael, not to Yahudah! Romans 9:23-26 “and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem, V.24 even whom He called, not only us of the Yahuḏim, but also of the gentiles (Yisrael!)? V.25 As He says in Hoshĕa too, “I shall call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.” V.26 “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living Elohim.” There is absolutely no way any intellectually honest person can deny that Yisrael scattered to the nations in Hoshea is the very gentiles that Rav Shaul is speaking of in Romans 9-11. This witness of Hoshea is repeated in chapter 2:19-23 Hoshea 2:19-23 “And I shall take you (Yisrael) as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling, and kindness and compassion. V.20 “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know ‫יהוה‬. V.21 “And it shall be in that day that I answer,” declares ‫יהוה‬, “that I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth, v.22 and the earth answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizreʽĕl. V.23 “And I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My 7

people,’ while they say, ‘My Elohim!’ ” Now I know we have been brainwashed forever and a day that we are gentiles and we are not Yisrael by our religious systems and I also know there are some “Scriptures” that seem to testify to this being a reality. However, this reckoning is only established because we do not fully understand the Hebraic, or more specifically “Jewish”, definition of gentile. At the time of the first century a gentile was considered anyone who was not a Yahudim (Jew) by birth or a Yahudite (Jewish) convert. The reasoning for this is quite simple. Their 10 brothers (Northern Yisrael) had fully immersed themselves in the pagan world and could no longer be distinguished in any way as being a people in covenant with Yah, because they had been divorced under the law, (The Torah)! This understanding is further confirmed by the Yahudim historian Josephus. Josephus not only spoke of knowing the locations of the 10 tribes who were scattered in dispersion throughout the nations of the world from the 6th century BC until his day, but he also specifically refers to them as gentiles. This is further testified to in Acts 15:19-21 “Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the gentiles who are turning to Elohim, V.20 but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood. V. 21 “For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.” Many have interpreted these “Scriptures” falsely to say the gentile (N. 10 Tribes of Yisrael) converts did not have to keep “The Torah”, but only had to follow the three simple rules found in verse 20. They completely miss verse 21 all together that plainly says everything else they will need to learn about following Yahoshua ha MaShiach is taught every Sabbath, in every city all over the known world. How come the TaNaKh (OT) was distributed to every city? Because all of Yisrael and most of Yahudah (approximately 90%) never returned to the promised land after they were exiled by the king of Assyria and the king of Babylon, respectively. As they wandered from place to place Yisrael and Yahudah took “The Torah” with them, thus evangelizing the whole world with “The Torah”! Yahweh Elohim prophesied through the prophet Yehezkel / Ezekiel that He was reconciling to Himself one people through Messiah. These people were Yahudah and Yisrael. The translators rendered the prophecy one stick, however it is more correctly understood as one TREE as in ONE OLIVE TREE! Yehezkel / Ezekiel 37:19-24 “say to them, ‘Thus said the Master ‫יהוה‬, “See, I am taking the stick (Olive Tree) of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick (Olive Tree) of Yahuḏah, 8

and make them one stick (Olive Tree), and they shall be one in My hand.” ’ v.20 “And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. V.21 “And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master ‫יהוה‬, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land. V.22 “And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns. V.23 “And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting matters, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall cleanse them. And they shall be My people, and I be their Elohim, v.24 while Dawiḏ My servant is sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in My right-rulings and guard My laws, and shall do them.” Whereas we, all the believers in Messiah, are rightfully called Yisrael we are also rightfully called Yahudah! Our hearts were circumcised by conversion when we received our Messiah! Romans 2:28-29 “For he is not a Yahuḏite (Jew) who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. V.29 But a Yahuḏite is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not literally, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim. Now, lest anyone accuse me falsely, I am not preaching replacement theology! Yisrael and Yahudah of the old covenant and of the re-NEW-ed covenant has always been by Yahweh’s unmerited favor through faith! A good maxim of correctly studying and understanding “The Scriptures” is, “If it is true, it is not new!” and conversely “If it is new it is not true!” Sadly, most who profess this do not actually believe it! In both the old covenant and the re-NEW-ed covenant “Scriptures” we find out of the twelve tribes there is always true Yisrael by favor through faith and apostate Yisrael by false religious systems of works and co-mingling the set-apart with the profane. They have always co-existed together until Yahoshua comes as sovereign Judge and King. All of Yisrael (including the strangers and the mixed multitude – Shemoth / Exodus 12:38) were saved / delivered / born again by covenant when by belief they placed their full trust in the favor given them by the blood of the Passover lamb that covered each household. Ruach ha Chodesh (the Set-apart Spirit) came into each and every home, passing over the threshold of each door way, in the land of Goshen, and indwelled each one, as the messengers of death passed through the land. True Yisrael has always been by His favor through faith! It has never been by racial progeny! If unmerited favor ever depended on who your daddy is then why was Yishmael excluded from the covenant of his father Abraham? How come Esau is excluded from the covenant of his father’s Abraham and Isaac? How come Yahudah Iscariot is excluded as the “Son of Destruction?” Clearly, Yahweh’s favor is always by faith, not by works. Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua does not change. He is always the same yesterday, today and forever. (Malachai 3:6 and Ibrim / Hebrews 13:8) 9

We have come into covenant, and the promises thereof, by adoption and there can be no doubt that the covenant is only for Yisrael and for Yahudah, the whole house of Yisrael, the Green Olive Tree! Ephesians 2:10-17 “For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah ‫ יהושע‬unto good works, which Elohim prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. V.11 Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh (Yisrael dispersed to the nations), who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands, v.12 that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world. V.13 But now in Messiah ‫ יהושע‬you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah. V.14 For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier, v.15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two (Yisrael and Yahudah), thus making peace, v.16 and to completely restore to favour both of them unto Elohim in one body (the whole house of Yisrael) through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it. V.17 And having come, He brought as Good News peace to you who were far off (the Ten N. Tribes of Yisrael), and peace to those near (Yahudah). V.18 Because through Him we both (Yisrael and Yahudah) have access to the Father by one Spirit. V.19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens (Of Yisrael) with the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,” Romans 8:14-17 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, they are the sons of Elohim. V.15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received ha Ruach (the Spirit) of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. V.16 Ha Ruach (The Spirit) itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of Elohim: v.17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of Elohim, and joint-heirs with Messiah; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” A cursory glance at the whole counsel of “The Scriptures” from Abraham forward reveals the saints of Yahweh could only marry within their own family tree or someone who converted to the house of Yisrael. e.g. Ruth the Moabitess We have been adopted into the family of Yisrael so that we may be eligible for our upcoming marriage to the groom, Yahoshua ha MaShiach! As we have already witnesses there is only one bride in all of “The Scriptures”! Her name is Yisrael! (Hoshea 2:19-23) Ephesians 5:31-32 “For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” V.32 This secret is great, but I speak concerning Messiah and the assembly (of Yisrael). “The Scriptures” plainly declare to whom the inheritance of adoption belongs to. “who are Yisra’ĕlites, whose is the adoption” ~ Romans 9:4

Most people do not know why the adoption pertains to Yisrael. To find out the answer we have to return to “The Torah”! Our father Ya‘acob when he was nearing the end of his life adopted both of the sons of Yoseph and made them as if they were his own children by birth. This is why there is no tribe of Yoseph named among the twelve tribes of Yisrael. Previously, Ya‘acob’s name was changed by Yahweh to Yisrael! To Yisrael pertains the adoption! Bereshith / Genesis 48:14-20 “And Yisra’ĕl stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh’s head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh was the first-born. v.15 And he blessed Yosĕph, and said, “The Elohim before whom my fathers Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day, v.16 the Messenger who has redeemed me from all evil – bless the youths! And let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq. And let them increase to a multitude in the midst of the earth.” v.17 And when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh. v.18 And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his head.” v.19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also becomes a people, and he also is great. And yet, his younger brother is greater than he, and his seed is to become the completeness of the nations.” v.20 And he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh.” Bereshith / Genesis 32:28 “And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽaqoḇ, but Yisra’ĕl, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.” It is also of great importance to know Ephraim was to become “the First Born” of Yisrael and His name would become interchangeable and in fact synonymous with the other ten tribes of the north, as was Samaria the Capitol city of Yisrael. YirmeYahu / Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hoshea 7:1 “Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕl, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron (Samaria). For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside.” Why is it so important to realize these two eternal truths? Because by adoption, we have become the firstborn sons of the living Elohim! Proving we are the Ephraimites (firstborn sons) of Yisrael! (Yahonan 1:12 & Romans 8:14-17) It is amazing how many will claim that they believe these “Scriptures” are true and then proceed to tell you how Yahweh’s plan for salvation was for Yisrael in the TaNaKh (OT) and then for the “church” in the first century. How double minded can you possibly be?

There are at least 13 passages of “Scripture” in the TaNaKh (OT) that testify to the dispersion of Yahweh’s people, the whole house of Yisrael, throughout the entire world. Debarim / Deuteronomy 4:27-29, 28:62-64, Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 9:13-16, Way yiqra / Leviticus 26:14-16, 28 & 33, Yehezkel / Ezekiel 5:10, 6:8, 12:15, 20:23-24, 22:14-15, 36:19-20, Zechariah 2:6, 7:13-14, Nehemiah 1:8 There are another 26 passages that testify to the re-gathering of the whole house of Yisrael. Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 16:14-16, 16:19-21, 23:3, 29:10-14, 29:13-14, 30:3, 32:37-41, 32:44, 33:7-9, 23:8 Debarim / Deuteronomy 30:3, Debarim 30:4, Yeshayahu / Isaiah 11:12-13, 43:5-6 & 8-9, Micah 2:12, Yehezkel / Ezekiel 11:16-17, 20:41-44, 28:25-26, 34:11-16 & 23, 36:24-37, 37:22-28, Zephaniah 3:19, Hosea 8:10, Zechariah 10:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Mismore / Psalm 147:2, Most “Christians” do not want to acknowledge the validity of this teaching for the primary reason that their current “Christian” cult does not / will not acknowledge it and they are bound by the tradition of their cult (church), rather than truth. The second reason they will reject this teaching is because if we are in fact Yisrael then we are bound by the constitution Yahweh Elohim gave us in the wilderness at Mt. Sinai and most “Christians” are forever content with their lawless or more accurately Torah-less state. Hear the Word of your Messiah! Mattithyahu 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens. V.22 “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?’ v.23 “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness (Torahlessness)!’ There is only one group of people on the planet that fit the description of these verses and they are called, born again, spirit filled, evangelical, fundamental, catholic “Christians”. This group of people fully expect to enter into Yahoshua’s esteem and Kingdom and are going to be shell shocked to find out they are not even welcome, by the Messiah Yahoshua, Himself. Now, lest anyone believe, falsely that this passage of “Scripture” does not apply to them because they have been a “Christian” their whole life, I would like to point out that this word “knew” is the same word that the first Adam knew his wife intimately in the consummation of their marriage. No one will know their husband Y’shua ha MaShiach with this depth of intimacy until He comes for His bride at the resurrection. If you really want to understand the fullness of this, (your salvation / justification, perfection / set-apartness and your celestial esteem), you must study and learn ancient Hebrew wedding customs and traditions. The entire understanding of why Yahoshua came the first time and why is coming again a second time only make sense in light of the picture of the ancient Semitic wedding customs. I have provided two different links for those who are interested in learning more about this most important topic of study.

http://robertarthurmcduffie.blogspot.com/2011/12/elohim-and-king-of-all-grace.html http://www.rebeccaatthewell.org/youtube.html Most “Christians” would rather believe the lie that the law (Torah) has been done away with at the cross than to ever be bothered with the hearing of it and the doing of it. According to traditional counting there are 613 different commands in “The Torah”. Most of these commands do not even apply to the average person. The commands for men do not apply to women, for example. Then there are commands for the Levites, for the priesthood, for the tabernacle and for living in the land of Yisrael itself. By way of comparison, when you add up all the local, state and national commands of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA it comes to about 60 million commands. There are more than 600 different commands that apply just to the average driver driving down the road. Amazingly, every “Christian” will not even give it a second thought to know every command that pertains to them driving a motor vehicle. They never, ever say, “well I now am under grace because of the cross and so now I do not have to obey the laws of the land that pertain to driving a vehicle.” Talk about being under the law! Give it a rest already! Even the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA has ruled, in 2006, that ignorance of the law was now a justifiable excuse for breaking the law seeing how there are too many laws for the average person to even know, much less to obey. However, when it comes to obeying the relatively few instructions that pertain to set-apartness unto their Bridegroom Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua they could not even give a care. They have been brainwashed forever and a day that “The Torah” or “The Instructions” have been done away with because of Elohim’s favor. Yahoshua said, “you shall know them by their fruits!” (Matt. 7:20) Just look at the fruit of “Christianity” in the western world. Can any rational and logically thinking person honestly say that the fruit of “the church” is better than that of the world? NO!!!!! It is rotten and it stinks! There is yet a third reason that Yahoshua had to die that supersedes and precedes both of the first two reasons. Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua made an unconditional covenant of grace with our father Abraham. Most of the body of Yahoshua, including our presbytery, do not understand ancient Semitic covenants, thus we do not really understand or relate to the picture that is given us in Bereshith / Genesis 15. v.7 “And he said unto him, I am Yahweh that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. V.8 And he said, Master Yahweh, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? V.9 And He said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years 13

old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. V.10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. V.11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. V.12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. V.13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; v.14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. v15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. V.16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. V.17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. V.18 In the same day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: v.19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, v.20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, v.21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” There are 9 parts to ancient Semitic covenant. 1) Take off your robe or coat ~ Matt 27:31, 35 2) Take off your belt (finances & sword) ~ Matt 26:15, Ibrim/Hebrews 13:5-6 3) Cut animal(s) in two pieces. ~ John 19:23-24 4) Raise the right arm and swear and mix the blood. ~ John 19:18, Luke 23:34 & 43 5) Exchange of names. ~ Rev 3:12 6) Make a scar. ~ John 20:25 7) Write down terms of the covenant ~ The Holy Bible 8) Eat a memorial meal. ~ Luke 22:15-16, Rev 19:9 9) Plant a memorial tree. ~ John 19:19, 1 Peter 2:24 One of the nine steps of covenant is the exchange of vows under oath. For a comprehensive teaching on the covenant of pieces please see the teaching “Covenant Of Pieces” by Rico Cortes of Wisdom In Torah Ministries. Now, “The Scriptures” tell us that our father Abraham was sleeping deeply while Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua was making covenant. Bereshith / Genesis 15:12 “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.” Because Abraham was asleep Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua made all the conditions of the covenant dependent upon Himself alone. Part of the oath exchanged during ancient covenant was, if either party or their descendants broke the covenant then what had happened to the animals that were cut in pieces and whose blood was shed would happen to the one who is guilty of breaking the covenant.

In establishing and making covenant with Abraham, while he was sleeping, Yahweh Elohim Yahoshua was establishing that if Abraham or any of his descendants broke covenant with Yahweh that He would die for them and shed His blood for them in their place! Ibrim / Hebrews 6:17-18 “In this way Elohim, resolving to show even more clearly to the heirs of promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, confirmed it by an oath, v.18 so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,” Now dear loved one, you know the full gospel and you truly understand the answer to the question,”Why did Yahoshua have to die?”