In Acts 1:6 it says that when the apostles were come together they asked this question saying, Adonai (Master), Will thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

 

When we think of the gospel, we generally limit our thinking to receiving the gift that comes by grace through faith, which of course is salvation and receiving the manifestations of the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) that comes in power to strengthen the believer to be His testimony (witness) to a lost and dying world. This is true, but in order for us to get proper biblical perspective on how this came to be we have to go back in biblical history to get insight into Elohim's (God's) original (and only) plan to redeem man by showing the nations how this would be accomplished by the restoration of His chosen people, ISRAEL

 

Since the fall of Adam, Elohim (God) had promised to restore man to the dominion and stature that he once held. Adam had been created in the image of Elohim. His environment was perfect; and if sin had not caused his fall, he would still be alive today. Man, driven from the garden following the fall, became only a diminutive of what he had been. (the Scriptural Biblical example of fallen man's diminutive condition is opposite humanist's delusional assertions that man is inherently good and can be inspired and ascend up to a level of perfection as he discovers and employs the power of his inner consciousness). The earth had also changed, for Elohim had placed a curse upon it (Gen 3:17).  Man’s future was bleak with the exception of a hope seen in the prophesies of a Coming One who would conquer sin, defeat death, and bring about both the restoration of both man and earth (Ro 8:18-25). (This "Coming One," would also come out of the people Elohim had chosen... ISRAEL; and these same chosen people would be the basis for the statement by Yeshua, "salvation is of the Jews." (John 4:22) Thus, this "show & tell" to the nations would be the premier event on the world stage for millennia... and its message would be both a blessing and a curse to those who embrace or oppose it).

 

Prophets, kings, and priests had all spoken of this deliverer and event. This became the “Basar” (good news).  It was well defined in the Hebrew mind long before Yeshua (Jesus) walked upon the earth. As Adam had been a king of the earth under the rule of Elohim, so the redeemer to come would also be a king. The Malkut Shamayim (Kingdom of Heaven) would come to earth in this King. The kingdom was to be a time of physical as well as spiritual resurrection: therefore, healing, miracles, and divine manifestations of the power of Elohim were expected. Yeshua’s work in His first coming fulfilled only part of the promised restoration. The balance of the restoration will be completed in His second coming (Rev 22:12-14).

 

GOSPEL

The gospel is mercy to the banished ones, the House of Israel. In (Jer 3:8) YHWH speaks to the House of Israel and of a certificate of divorce because what is explained in 2 Kings 17:6-23. This broke the marriage contract that was established at Sinai. The House of Israel’s sister, treacherous Judah, played the harlot and she was caught in adultery (this refers to spiritual adultery, taking on pagan worship and practices) but she was not divorced. (As note of clarification for contextual relevance, House of Israel, as used here, namely refers to the "Northern Kingdom," 10 Northern Tribes that emerged with the separation of "ISRAEL" into two Kingdoms following King Solomon's reign, with the "Southern Kingdom" referred to as "Judah," namely referring to the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin and some Levites; with both "Kingdoms" generally known as the Two Houses of Israel. All this is explained in 1Kings Chapters 11 & 12).

 

 Through the death and resurrection of the name YHWH, the husband, (Yeshua’s atoning triumph over sin and death at Calvary) which then purifies the soul of Israel, removes their judgment as an adulteress, restores them back to the honor of a bride and grants them an inheritance with their brother Judah in the promised land of Israel. For the dispersed ones called the House of Judah the judgment of death for adultery is taken away also, resulting in their atonement. This whole idea of the disbursement and banishment is in (Is 11: 11-12). This concept was so thoroughly  understood by Yeshua that He included it in (Mt 13:11-17), it was He, the blessed master, who spoke to His talmidin (disciples) and said, “blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, for truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see and did not see and hear what you hear and did not hear,” THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COMING OF MESSIAH BEN YOSEPH (The Suffering Servant) to deliver the House of Israel back to the contract they had been banished from. Just as Yeshua spoke in “mysterious” parables (the parable of the “sower” in this case), and some (those with hearts of good soil) received “seed” (the truth) and embraced it, and some did not; the same is true today… those who receive the Scriptures for truth and have “ears” and “eyes” of hungry hearts of good “soil” for truth will find it (Mat 13:11-13).

 

When Paul is preaching about any “other” gospel (good news) it is when someone minimizes or nullifies the undeserved mercy that YHWH is pouring out to the gentiles by requiring them to come to obedience to local customs, and laws, and in this case immediate circumcision with limited Torah knowledge. The book of Galatians is about a system of ranking the circumcised Judah as a first class community of Israel, and the gentile lost sheep of Israel being put under their control, relegating them to becoming members of a second class community. This is what is really going on in Galatians. It is a difficulty between the Judaizers of Jerusalem and the Ephraimites (as House of Israel is often referred to in Scripture)  who were coming into the faith in great numbers and believing that Yeshua was the Messiah who came to deliver the lost sheep of the House of Israel and bring them back to contract. The Brit Chadashah (N.T.) is a renewal of the Mosaic contract with Israel the adulteress. (Not the beginning of a new plan of Salvation for "another” group of people, i.e., "the church” or a “new dispensation” of some kind).

 

Prior to Yeshua’s finished work we gentiles were foreigners to the covenant promises of YHWH and without hope in this life and with no ability to know YHWH’s presence in this world (Eph 2:11-14).  Because of Israel’s disobedience and their scattering it proved fortunate for all those who were not under the covenant, (THAT’S US !) that by the scattering of Israel and their inter association with the gentiles over thousands of years we now are to be included in the restoration of YHWH. It is by His Spirit that this gathering of The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel will be done. We will be grafted into Israel as indicated in (Ezk 37:1-28) and in (Romans 11: 24-26). Romans also tells us of the great day, “when the fullness of the gentiles has come in and so all Israel (Believers in Messiah be they Jew or Greek) will be saved.” (Romans 9:6b) says, “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel.”

 

FACTS:

(1.)    In this world there are only two peoples of the book (Bible)

            A. Those called the Jews (House of Judah) 

B. Those called the Christians (House of Israel includes many Christians by faith in Yeshua)   

           

Both Christian and Jew were names given them by ones other than their own. The believers first became known as Christians as an appellation of ridicule. The Christians do not seem to have adopted it for themselves in the times of the Apostles. As applied by Gentiles there was no doubt an implication of scorn. The Greek seems to indicate that the term “Christian” was used by outsiders as a term of insult to the early Believers. (The term "Jews" originated in a similar manner). 

(2.)     Each House has something the other has not

A. Christianity (House of Israel) has it right that Yeshua is the only way to salvation. They have the Living Torah who is Yeshua

B. Judaism (House of Judah) has it right that Torah (Law of Moses) is the proper means by which to walk in a redemptive life style. They understand the written Torah's everlasting application to man's life.

 

A. Christianity is presenting to Judah a Greco-Roman Messiah that does not line up with Scripture by establishing doctrines that set aside the eternal Torah, the Word of God, making it of non-effect. (Mark 7:13)

B. Judah is presenting to Christianity a Judaic or Rabbinical Torah that is their own Oral Tradition, and incorporates their own additions to Torah as part of the written Torah given to Moses. In their thinking their Oral Tradition carries as much weight and even more than the Law of Moses (Written Word of God) thus making the word of God of non-effect. (Mark 7:13)

 

A. It is Christianities (House of Israel) Scriptural responsibility to provoke Judah to jealousy- (Ro 10:19 7 12-24)  (This "jealousy" is revealed in Yeshua's parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32, where the "lost and dead" son (representing House of Israel scattered people, mostly Christians awakening to Scriptures about their identity), upon returning to the father's ways (Torah), causes the "older” son (representing Judah) who has been keeping the Father's Torah without transgressing it, to become angry (jealous) of the Father's excitement and lavish gifts to the returning son, "who was dead, and is alive again;” This is a powerful "hidden” truth that the Ruach HaKodesh clearly reveals to the one who studies the prophetic destiny of the Two Houses, Israel and Judah.)

B. It is through Judah that the oracles of God were committed and preserved. (Ro 3:4), and Judah will not come to accept Yeshua as Messiah through the Christian tradition, but only when they see Christianity observing the Scriptural Law of Moses.

 

Ro 11:25         For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness (our own theology) in part is happened to Israel, (Both Houses) until the fullness of the Gentiles(nations) be come in.

Ro 11:26         And so all Israel (The entire body of Messiah) shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. (Jacob, as used here, refers to "all” Israel, i.e., "Both Houses.”)

 

I believe that our Creators model as to what a husband and wife should be is closely reflective to what the House of Judah - House of Israel should be; that is, that oneness is not complete until they come together as One New Man in the hand of the Most High  just like the two sticks. (Ezk 37:15-28)

 

This is the Gospel ---In Hebrew the word gospel is --Basar-- as I have already mentioned in the third paragraph of this writing. Basar in the context of Good News or Gospel is the verbal form of the noun Basar, which means flesh.  The Strong’s numbers for these two meanings is 01319 and 01320 respectively.

 

What does this mean ?

Genesis 2:23   And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:24   Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Basar). >>> Another way of saying this could be for the Good News --The Gospel

 

Mk 10:29         And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, (Basar-or to become one flesh in order to bring in the Good News)

Mk 10:30         But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

 

In Hebrew thought the Gospel and the Flesh have a symbiotic relationship, for it is our flesh that holds all of our body parts together, and that is certainly good news.  It is also good news that the entire Body of Messiah (The Two Houses) should come together as ONE HOUSE just like man and wife should come together and become one flesh (Basar--Good  News--Gospel).  Just as man is not complete without woman, so too Judah is not complete without Ephraim. (House of Israel).

 

We are among the “Christians (House of Israel) returning to YHWH’s Torah living,” who have come to understand the deep and rich unaltered Scriptural fellowship of the “Original” believers of Yeshua, as were the early Disciples of His day. That this is a great move of the Holy One of Israel on the earth today bringing about the “Restoration of All Things” as previously mentioned and contained in Acts 3:21. This involves the Jews coming to know Yeshua as Messiah - The Living Torah - and Christians returning to YHWH’s instructions in righteousness - the Written Torah - and all becoming one in Yeshua the Messiah who was and is the Torah (Word of Elohim) come in the flesh.

 

Eph2:15

Having abolished in His (Yeshua’s) flesh the enmity, (hate-hostility) the law of commandments in ordinances; (man made laws) for to make in Himself of twain (the two) one new man, making peace.

 

Shalom!